It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Scientists "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Scientists
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Scientists Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Scientists
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Scientists "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Scientists
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Scientists The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Scientists
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Scientists "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Scientists
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Scientists He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Scientists
May you never leave your marriage alive. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Scientists Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Scientists
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Scientists Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Scientists
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Scientists Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Scientists
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Scientists In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Scientists
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Scientists A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Scientists
