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The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council - The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC)funds UK research, education and public understanding in its four broad areas of science - particle physics, astronomy, cosmology and space science.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G. B. Burgin Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw My other wife is beautiful. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung PPARC Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr PPARC "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. PPARC "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu PPARC An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi PPARC Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone PPARC If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor PPARC I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire PPARC Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) PPARC In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw PPARC "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. -- Alphonse Karr PPARC "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) PPARC "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy PPARC I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous PPARC The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince PPARC And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot PPARC If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper PPARC Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki PPARC "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis PPARC Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) PPARC "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) PPARC "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine PPARC
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