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发信人: zjliu (秋天的萝卜), 信区: Chemistry
标 题: Gaussian格言全集
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发信人: zjliu (秋天的萝卜), 信区: Math
标 题: Gaussian格言全集
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发信站: BBS 大话西游站 (Tue Apr 5 09:28:41 2005), 转信
在下有个习惯，每次做完Gaussian作业都要亲自将输出文件末尾的格言拷贝出来，小心存
在
单独一个文件中。就这样日积月累，一晃六七年的时间过去了。直到有一天，当我发现我
那
珍藏的文件中的格言再也无法不重复地增加时，我想该是大功告成了。我细细盘点一下，
大
小格言，或俗或雅，凡五百四十七条。本想就此压回箱底，待闲暇之时细细品之，后又转
念
一想，不如作抛砖之玉，示之同道，权当笑料耳。
Gaussian格言全集 (共547条)
ON A TOMBSTONE, "HERE LIES LESTER MOORE,
FOUR SLUGS FROM A 44, NO LES, NO MORE".
TIME IS IN FACT THE HERO OF THE PLOT. THE TIME
WITH WHICH WE HAVE TO DEAL IS OF THE ORDER OF TWO
BILLION YEARS...GIVEN SO MUCH TIME, THE "IMPOSSIBLE"
BECOMES POSSIBLE, THE POSSIBLE PROBABLE, THE PROBABLE
VIRTUALLY CERTAIN. ONE HAS ONLY TO WAIT, TIME
ITSELF PERFORMS THE MIRACLES.
"ORIGIN OF LIFE" LECTURES, GEORGE WALD, 1954
TIME GOES, YOU SAY? AH NO!
ALAS, TIME STAYS, WE GO.
-- A. DOBSON (1840-1921)
THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN INCREASING ITS SPEED.
-- GANDHI
ACTORS ARE SO FORTUNATE. THEY CAN CHOOSE WHETHER
THEY WILL APPEAR IN A TRAGEDY OR IN COMEDY,
WHETHER THEY WILL SUFFER OF MAKE MERRY,
LAUGH OR SHED TEARS. BUT IN REAL LIFE IT IS DIFFERENT.
MOST MEN AND WOMEN ARE FORCED TO PERFORM
PARTS FOR WHICH THEY HAVE NO QUALIFICATIONS.
THE WORLD IS A STAGE, BUT THE PLAY IS BADLY CAST.
-- OSCAR WILDE
THE ENLIGHTENED ONE, BECAUSE HE SAW MANKIND DROWNING
IN THE GREAT SEA OF BIRTH, DEATH, AND SORROW, LONGED TO SAVE
THEM, FOR THIS HE WAS MOVED TO PITY.
BECAUSE HE SAW MEN OF THE WORLD STRAYING IN FALSE PATHS, AND
NONE TO GUIDE THEM, FOR THIS HE WAS MOVED TO PITY.
..................
BECAUSE HE SAW THE MEN OF THE WORLD PLOUGHING THEIR FIELDS,
SOWING THE SEED, TRAFFICKING, HUCKSTERING, BUYING, SELLING,
AND AT THE END WINNOWING NOTHING BUT BITTERNESS,
FOR THIS HE WAS MOVED TO PITY......
BUDAH'S PITY - UPSAKA SILA SUTRA
QED = W**5 (WHICH WAS WHAT WE WANTED)
A CHEMICAL PHYSICIST MAKES PRECISE MEASUREMENTS ON IMPURE COMPOUNDS.
A THEORETICAL PHYSICAL CHEMIST MAKES IMPRECISE
MEASUREMENTS ON PURE COMPOUNDS.
AN EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICAL CHEMIST MAKES IMPRECISE
MEASUREMENTS ON IMPURE COMPOUNDS.
HEAVEN'S NET CASTS WIDE.
THOUGH ITS MESHES ARE COARSE, NOTHING SLIPS THROUGH.
-- LAO-TSU
THERE IS MUCH PLEASURE TO BE GAINED FROM USELESS KNOWLEDGE
-- BERTRAND RUSSELL
IF YOU GET CONFUSED, LOGIC OUT YOUR DILEMMA
-- PICKER X-RAY CORP. DIGITAL PRINTER MANUAL CA. 1964
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
-- Oprah Winfrey
THE DEATH-KNELL OF THE ATOM
SO THE ATOMS IN TURN, WE NOW CLEARLY DISCERN,
FLY TO BITS WITH THE UTMOST FACILITY;
THEY WEND ON THEIR WAY, AND, IN SPLITTING, DISPLAY
AN ABSOLUTE LACK OF STABILITY.
SIR WM. RAMSAY, 1905
MORNING PEOPLE ARE USUALLY ADMIRED AS EARLY BIRDS.
RECALL BEN FRANKLIN'S APHORISM THAT THE EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM.
I IDENTIFY WITH THE WORM. -- CRAIG JAGGER, MINNEAPOLIS, KS.
... SUBJECTS WHICH DISCLOSE THEIR FULL POWER, MEANING AND BEAUTY AS SOON
AS THEY ARE PRESENTED TO THE MIND HAVE VERY LITTLE OF THOSE QUALITIES
TO DISCLOSE.
-- CHARLES DUTTON (1882)
AND ALL THIS SCIENCE I DON'T UNDERSTAND
IT'S JUST MY JOB FIVE DAYS A WEEK
-- ELTON JOHN, "ROCKET MAN"
Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary
line between two nations, separating the imaginary
rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.
-- Ambrose Bierce
TERENCE, THIS IS STUPID STUFF:
YOU EAT YOUR VICTUALS FAST ENOUGH;
THERE CAN'T BE MUCH AMISS, 'TIS CLEAR
TO SEE THE RATE YOU DRINK YOUR BEER.
BUT OH, GOOD LORD, THE VERSE YOU MAKE,
IT GIVES A CHAP THE BELLY-ACHE.
THE COW, THE OLD COW, SHE IS DEAD;
IT SLEEPS WELL, THE HORNED HEAD:
WE POOR LADS, 'TIS OUR TURN NOW
TO HEAR SUCH TUNES AS KILLED THE COW.
PRETTY FRIENDSHIP 'TIS TO RHYME
YOUR FRIENDS TO DEATH BEFORE THEIR TIME.
MOPING, MELANCHOLY MAD:
COME PIPE A TUNE TO DANCE TO, LAD.
-- A. E. HOUSMAN
WHEN A MATHEMATICIAN ENGAGED IN INVESTIGATING
PHYSICAL ACTIONS AND RESULTS HAS ARRIVED AT HIS
CONCLUSIONS, MAY THEY NOT BE EXPRESSED IN COMMON
LANGUAGE AS FULLY, CLEARLY, AND DEFINITELY AS IN
MATHEMATICAL FORMULAE?
- LETTER FROM M. FARADAY TO J.C. MAXWELL, 1857.
... THIS SEEMS PLAINLY ABSURD; BUT WHOEVER WISHES TO BECOME A
PHILOSOPHER MUST LEARN NOT TO BE FRIGHTENED BY ABSURDITIES.
-- BERTRAND RUSSELL
IF THERE IS ONE WAY BETTER THAN ANOTHER IT IS THE WAY OF NATURE.
-- ARISTOTLE
A politician is a person who can make waves and then
make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.
-- Ivern Ball
I WANT IT ALL - RICH, THIN, AND CHOCOLATE.
ALL SCIENCE IS EITHER PHYSICS, OR STAMP COLLECTING.
--ERNEST RUTHERFORD, 1871-1937.
NOTHING PUZZLES ME MORE THAN TIME AND SPACE; AND YET NOTHING TROUBLES ME
LESS
-- CHARLES LAMB
(1810)
HO! SUCH BUGS AND GOBLINS IN MY LIFE!
-- HAMLET, ACT 5, SCENE 2
SUCCESS-- IF YOU HAVE TRIED TO DO SOMETHING AND FAILED
YOU ARE BETTER OFF THAN IF YOU HAD TRIED TO DO
NOTHING AND SUCCEEDED.
-- FROM THE BACK OF A SUGAR PACKET
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.
-- Frank A. Clark
SOME PHYSICISTS WOULD PREFER TO COME BACK TO THE IDEA OF AN OBJECTIVE
REAL WORLD WHOSE SMALLEST PARTS EXIST OBJECTIVELY IN THE SAME SENSE AS
STONES OR TREES EXIST INDEPENDENTLY OF WHETHER WE OBSERVE THEM.
THIS, HOWEVER, IS IMPOSSIBLE. -- WERNER HEISENBERG
KNOWLEDGE IS EXPERIMENT'S DAUGHTER.
-- LEONARDO DA VINCI, IN "PENSIERI" CA. 1492
THERE'S NOTHING SO GREAT AS THE GREAT OUTDOORS.
-- ZIGGY
THE SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM CHANGES THE PROBLEM.
-- JOHN PEERS
PAUL DICKSON'S "THE OFFICIAL RULES"
QUHEN THE CAUSS IS TAKEN AWAY THE EFFECT WANISHETH.
-- PROVERBS AND REASONS OF THE YEAR 1585
AS REPRINTED IN PAISLEY MAGAZINE 1828.
THE TRULY SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE OF RESEARCHES IN
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY IS POSSIBLE ONLY TO ONE WHO IS NOT
ONLY A THEORETICAL CHEMIST, BUT ALSO AN ACCOMPLISHED
ANALYST AND, MOREOVER, NOT MERELY A PRACTICALLY TRAINED,
MECHANICAL WORKER, BUT A THINKING CREATIVE ARTIST.
-- CLEMENS WINKLER, BER. 33, 1697(1900)
IF I HAVE SEEN FARTHER, IT IS BY STANDING ON THE
SHOULDERS OF GIANTS. -- SIR ISAAC NEWTON
THE LARGE PRINT GIVETH,
AND THE SMALL PRINT TAKETH AWAY.
-- TOM WAITES
FAULTILY FAULTLESS, ICILY REGULAR, SPLENDIDLY NULL...
MAUDE BY TENNYSON
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
WOMEN HOLD UP HALF THE SKY. -- MAO TSE TUNG
A MAN IS EXACTLY AS GREAT AS THE TIDE SURGING
BENEATH HIM. - BISMARCK
NEVER TEACH A PIG TO SING.
IT WASTES YOUR TIME AND ANNOYS THE PIG.
-- SEEN ON A GREETING CARD
E PUR SI MUOVE -- GALILEO GALILEI
A MAN SHOULD NEVER BE ASHAMED TO OWN HE HAS BEEN IN THE WRONG
WHICH IS BUT SAYING IN OTHER WORDS,
THAT HE IS WISER TODAY THAN HE WAS YESTERDAY.
-- JONATHAN SWIFT
We find comfort among those who agree with us -- growth among those who
don't.
-- Frank A. Clark
IT WAS A GAME, A VERY INTERESTING GAME ONE COULD
PLAY. WHENEVER ONE SOLVED ONE OF THE LITTLE PROBLEMS,
ONE COULD WRITE A PAPER ABOUT IT. IT WAS VERY EASY IN
THOSE DAYS FOR ANY SECOND-RATE PHYSICIST TO DO
FIRST-RATE WORK. THERE HAS NOT BEEN SUCH A GLORIOUS
TIME SINCE. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT NOW FOR A FIRST-RATE
PHYSICIST TO DO SECOND-RATE WORK.
P.A.M. DIRAC, ON THE EARLY DAYS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
DIRECTIONS IN PHYSICS, 1978, P. 7
...THE PHYSICISTS HAVE MADE THEIR UNIVERSE, AND IF YOU DO NOT LIKE
IT, YOU MUST MAKE YOUR OWN.
-- E. R. HARRISON IN "COSMOLOGY" (1980)
EDUCATION DOESN'T COST
... IT PAYS!
-- POSTMARK, UNIV. OF MISSISSIPPI, DEC 78
WE HAVE SEEN THAT MAN ON THE AVERAGE DOES NOT LIVE ABOVE
TWO-AND-TWENTY YEARS. DURING THESE TWO AND TWENTY
YEARS HE IS LIABLE TO TWO AND TWENTY THOUSAND EVILS,
MANY OF WHICH ARE INCURABLE. YET EVEN IN THIS DREADFUL STATE
MEN STILL STRUT AND POSE ON THE STAGE OF LIFE.
THEY MAKE LOVE AT THE RISK OF DESTRUCTION,
INTRIGUE, CARRY ON WAR, AND FORM PROJECTS, JUST AS IF THEY
WERE TO LIVE IN LUXURY AND HAPPINESS FOR A THOUSAND
AGES.
-- VOLTAIRE
ASKING DUMB QUESTIONS IS EASIER THAN CORECTING DUMB MISTAKES.
TRUST EVERYONE, BUT CUT THE CARDS.
IN THE WOODS WE RETURN TO REASON AND FAITH.
-- EMERSON
NATURE WILL TELL YOU A DIRECT LIE IF SHE CAN.
-- CHARLES DARWIN
"WOULD YOU TELL ME PLEASE, WHICH WAY I OUGHT TO WALK FROM HERE?"
"THAT DEPENDS A GREAT DEAL ON WHERE YOU WANT TO GO," SAID THE CAT.
"I DON'T MUCH CARE WHERE -- ", SAID ALICE.
"THEN IT DOESN'T MATTER WHICH WAY YOU WALK," SAID THE CAT.
-- LEWIS CARROLL
Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
-- Tom Wilson
NO SCIENCE HAS EVER MADE MORE RAPID PROGRESS IN A
SHORTER TIME THAN CHEMISTRY.
-- MARTIN HEINRICH KLOPROTH, 1791
(FIRST PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN)
WE HAVE LEARNED THAT NOTHING IS SIMPLE AND
RATIONAL EXCEPT WHAT WE OURSELVES HAVE INVENTED;
THAT GOD THINKS IN TERMS NEITHER OF EUCLID OR RIEMANN; THAT SCIENCE HAS
"EXPLAINED" NOTHING;
THAT THE MORE WE KNOW THE MORE FANTASTIC THE WORLD BECOMES
AND THE PROFOUNDER THE SURROUNDING DARKNESS.
-- ALDOUS HUXLEY
I FIND THAT THE THREE TRULY GREAT TIMES FOR THINKING THOUGHTS
ARE WHEN I AM STANDING IN THE SHOWER, SITTING ON THE JOHN, OR WALKING.
-- COLIN FLETCHER
CONTRAIWISE...CONTINUED TWEEDLEDEE, IF IT WAS SO, IT MIGHT BE,
AND IF IT WERE SO, IT WOULD BE.....
BUT AS IT ISN'T, IT AIN'T....
THAT'S LOGIC.....
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry
and been widely regarded as a bad move.
-D.Adams
BOOKS ARE LIGHTHOUSES ERECTED IN THE GREAT SEA OF TIME.
-- E.P.WHIPPLE
A SCIENTIST IS SOMEONE WHOSE CURIOSITY SURVIVES
EDUCATION'S ASSAULTS ON IT.
- SIR HERMANN BONDI
FROM THE ASHES OF OUR DESPAIR GROW THE FLOWERS OF TOMORROW.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO MEDITATE ON TIME AND THE MYSTERY
OF NATURE WITHOUT AN OVERWHELMING EMOTION AT THE
LIMITATIONS OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE.
-- ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
CHARLIE BROWN..'I CAN'T GET THAT STUPID KITE IN THE
AIR... I CAN'T... I C A N N O T...'
LUCY..'OH COME NOW CHARLIE BROWN...THAT'S NO WAY TO TALK...
THE TROUBLE WITH YOU IS YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN YOURSELF... YOU
DON'T BELIEVE IN YOUR OWN ABILITIES... YOU'VE GOT TO SAY TO
YOURSELF...'I BELIEVE I CAN FLY THIS KITE.'... GO AHEAD SAY
IT....'
CHARLIE BROWN..'I BELIEVE THAT I CAN FLY THIS STUPID
KITE.....I BELIEVE THAT I CAN FLY THIS KITE........
I A C T U A L L Y B E L I E V E T H A T I C A N ******'
LUCY..'I'LL BET YOU TEN-TO-ONE YOU'RE WRONG.......' SCHULZ
PERICLES, SOPHOCLES,
PELOPONESIAN WAR,
FRENCH VERBS, LATIN VERBS
H2SO4.
YOU CAN WIPE THE SLATE CLEAN, BUT YOU'LL STILL
HAVE TO EAT A LITTLE CHALK DUST.
MY GROUP MEETINGS AREN'T VERY STRUCTURED.
-- PROF. M. S. GORDON, OCT. 5, 1984
MISERY NO LONGER LOVES COMPANY. NOWADAYS IT INSISTS ON IT.
-- BAKER'S LAW
TWO ROADS DIVERGED IN A WOOD, AND I--
I TOOK THE ONE LESS TRAVELED BY,
AND THAT HAS MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE.
-- ROBERT FROST
A true friend is someone who is there for
you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
-- Len Wein
I SUPPOSE A BABY LLAMA HAS A MMAMA AND A PPOPA.
-- RICHARD AMOUR
SUPPORT THE RIGHT TO ARM BEARS!
(ADD A CLAWS TO THE BILL OF RIGHTS)
WE ARE PERHAPS NOT FAR REMOVED FROM THE TIME WHEN WE SHALL BE ABLE TO
SUBMIT
THE BULK OF CHEMICAL PHENOMENA TO CALCULATION.
-- JOSEPH LOUIS GAY-LUSSAC
MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE D'ARCUEIL, 2, 207 (1808)
LET US LEARN TO DREAM, GENTLEMEN, THEN PERHAPS WE SHALL
DISCOVER THE TRUTH; BUT LET US BEWARE OF PUBLISHING
OUR DREAMS ABROAD BEFORE THEY HAVE BEEN SCRUTINIZED
BY OUR VIGILANT INTELLECT ... LET US ALWAYS ALLOW
THE FRUIT TO HANG UNTIL IT IS RIPE. UNRIPE FRUIT
BRINGS EVEN THE GROWER BUT LITTLE PROFIT; IT DAMAGES
THE HEALTH OF THOSE WHO CONSUME IT; IT ENDANGERS
PARTICULARLY THE YOUTH WHO CANNOT YET DISTINGUISH
BETWEEN RIPE AND UNRIPE FRUIT.
-- KEKULE, 1890
YE HAVE SOWN MUCH, AND BRING IN LITTLE.
YE EAT, BUT YE HAVE NOT ENOUGH.
YE DRINK, BUT YE ARE NOT FILLED WITH DRINK.
YE CLOTHE YOU, BUT THERE IS NONE WARM.
AND HE THAT EARNETH WAGES EARNETH WAGES TO PUT
IT INTO A BAG WITH HOLES.
HAGGAI I,6
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Dan Stanford
THE SCIENTIFIC THEORIST IS NOT TO BE ENVIED. FOR NATURE, OR MORE
PRECISELY EXPERIMENT, IS AN INEXORABLE AND NOT VERY FRIENDLY JUDGE OF HIS
WORK. IT NEVER SAYS "YES" TO A THEORY. IN THE MOST FAVORABLE CASES
IT SAYS "MAYBE", AND IN THE GREAT MAJORITY OF CASES SIMPLY "NO"...
PROBABLY EVERY THEORY WILL SOME DAY EXPERIENCE ITS "NO" - MOST
THEORIES, SOON AFTER CONCEPTION. -- A.EINSTEIN, NOV 11, 1922.
EVERYTHING'S GOT A MORAL, IF ONLY YOU CAN FIND IT.
-- LEWIS CARROL, ALICE IN WONDERLAND
ALMOST ALL THE CHEMICAL PROCESSES WHICH OCCUR IN NATURE,
WHETHER IN ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE ORGANISMS,
OR IN THE NON-LIVING SURFACE OF THE EARTH ...
TAKE PLACE BETWEEN SUBSTANCES IN SOLUTION
-- W. OSTWALD, 1890
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
-- Chaucer
BULLDOZER: SOMEONE WHO SLEEPS THROUGH SPEECHES.
FESTINA LENTE!
- IMPERATOR AUGUSTUS
THE HURRIEDER I GO, THE BEHINDER I GET.
THE MORE PROGRESS PHYSICAL SCIENCES MAKE, THE MORE THEY TEND TO ENTER
THE DOMAIN OF MATHEMATICS, WHICH IS A KIND OF CENTRE TO WHICH THEY ALL
CONVERGE. WE MAY EVEN JUDGE THE DEGREE OF PERFECTION TO WHICH A
SCIENCE HAS ARRIVED BY THE FACILITY WITH WHICH IT MAY BE SUBMITTED
TO CALCULATION.
-- ADOLPHE QUETELET, 1796-1874
THERE IS NOTHING NOBLE IN BEING SUPERIOR TO SOME OTHER MAN.
TRUE NOBILITY IS BEING SUPERIOR TO YOUR FORMER SELF.
-- HINDU PROVERB
Until you make peace with who you are,
you'll never be content with what you have.
-- Doris Mortman
IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, TRY LOOKING IN
THE WASTEBASKET FOR THE DIRECTIONS.
I DON'T PRETEND TO UNDERSTAND THE UNIVERSE --
IT'S A GREAT DEAL BIGGER THAN I AM.
-- ATTR. TO WILLIAM ALLINGHAM (1828-89)
THOSE WITH THE GOLD MAKE THE RULES.
-- PETER'S GOLDEN RULE
ACCORDING TO HEN3RY, LIFE IS MUCH LIKE A SEWER........
YOU GET OUT OF IT JUST WHAT YOU PUT INTO IT...........
TOM LEHRER - (THE 3 IS SILENT)
Spring appears, and we are once more children.
-- Anonymous
YOU KNOW YOU'VE SPOKEN TOO LONG WHEN THE AUDIENCE STOPS LOOKING AT
THEIR WATCHES AND STARTS SHAKING THEM.
NOTHING RESEMBLES A NEW PHENOMENON AS MUCH AS A MISTAKE.
-- ENRICO FERMI (?)
IF I AM NOT FOR MYSELF, WHO WILL BE?
BUT IF I AM ONLY FOR MYSELF, WHAT AM I?
THOUGH A SEEKER SINCE MY BIRTH,
HERE IS ALL I'VE LEARNED ON EARTH,
THIS IS THE GIST OF WHAT I KNOW:
GIVE ADVICE AND BUY A FOE.
PRESSED FOR RULES AND VERITIES,
ALL I RECOLLECT ARE THESE:
FEED A COLD TO STARVE A FEVER,
ARGUE WITH NO TRUE-BELIEVER.
THINK-TOO-LONG IS NEVER-ACT,
SCRATCH A MYTH AND FIND A FACT.
STITCH IN TIME SAVES TWENTY STITCHES,
GIVE THE RICH TO PLEASE THEM, RICHES.
GIVE TO LOVE YOU HEARTH AND HALL,
BUT DO NOT GIVE ADVICE AT ALL.
-- HILLEL
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so
plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe.
I dispute that. I say that stupidity is far more
abundant than hydrogen, and THAT is the basic building
block of the universe.
--Frank Zappa
CHEMISTRY BEGAN BY SAYING IT WOULD CHANGE THE BASER
METALS INTO GOLD. BY NOT DOING THAT IT HAS DONE MUCH
GREATER THINGS. -- RALPH WALDO EMERSON
EVOLUTION
IN THE BEGINNING GOD MADE MAN.
HE WORKED THE DIRT WITH HIS HANDS.
THEN GOD DECIDED TO GIVE MAN SCIENCE,
MAN SHOULD BE USEFUL (LIKE AN APPLIANCE.)
BUT SOON MAN'S KNOWLEDGE GREW TOO GREAT,
TO THE HEADING SCIENCE HE COULDN'T RELATE
SO GOD SAID "LETS HAVE DIFFERENT FIELDS,
WE'LL DIVIDE THEM UP, SEE WHAT IT YIELDS."
ENTER PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, BIO
THEY SPRANG UP AROUND THE NILE.
BUT CHEMISTRY SURPASSED THE REST
FAR AND AWAY IT WAS THE BEST.
EXPERIMENT WAS GOD'S DECREE
EXPERIMENT DID CHEMISTS WITH LOTS OF GLEE
BUT SOON THEIR TESTS BEGAN TO BOG,
THEY FOUND THEMSELVES DEEP IN A FOG.
"GIVE US SOME HELP" THEY CRIED TO GOD.
GOD LOOKED AROUND, THEN GAVE THE NOD.
ENTER EINSTEIN, HEISENBERG, BOHR,
REACTION PATHS WERE CLEAR ONCE MORE.
WITH THEORISTS GOD SEND DIRECTION
AND THEN HE STOPPED, HE'D MADE PERFECTION.
-- THOMAS A. HOLME, 1981
A COMPLEXITY IS MERELY A DISARRANGEMENT OF SIMPLICITIES.
-- G. O. ABELL IN "EXPLORATION OF THE
UNIVERSE"
IT'S WHAT A FELLER THINKS HE KNOWS THAT HURTS HIM...
------
KIN HUBBARD
Discoveries are often made by not following instructions,
by going off the main road, by trying the untried.
-- Frank Tyger
POCKETA-POCKETA
BARON VON RICHTOFEN
SLAUGHTERED THE ALLIES WITH
HARDLY A CARE.
KILLED EIGHTY-ONE WITH HIS
BLOOD-COLORED TRIPLANE, THEN
UN-AEROBATICALLY
PLUNGED FROM THE AIR.
-- TONY HOFFMAN
MODELS ARE TO BE USED, NOT BELIEVED.
-- PARAPHRASED BY H. THIEL IN "PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMETRICS"
THE CAUTIOUS SELDOM ERR...CONFUCIUS
WHERE THERE IS MUCH DESIRE TO LEARN, THERE OF NECESSITY WILL BE
MUCH ARGUING, MUCH WRITING, MANY OPINIONS; FOR OPINION IN GOOD MEN
IS BUT KNOWLEDGE IN THE MAKING. -- JOHN MILTON.
GOORD'S AXIOM: A MEETING IS AN EVENT AT WHICH
THE MINUTES ARE KEPT AND THE HOURS ARE LOST.
... IT IS NO ONE DREAME THAT
CAN PLEASE THESE ALL ...
-- BEN JONSON
IT TAKES GREATER CHARACTER TO CARRY OFF GOOD FORTUNE THAN BAD.
FRENCH PROVERB.
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
-- Steven Wright
YOU SHOULDN'T LET PEOPLE DRIVE YOU CRAZY
WHEN YOU KNOW IT'S WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE.
RESEARCH IS WHAT I AM DOING WHEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT I AM DOING.
-- WERNER VON BRAUN
SATCHEL PAIGE'S GUIDE TO LONGEVITY
1. AVOID FRIED MEATS, WHICH ANGRY UP THE BLOOD.
2. IF YOUR STOMACH DISPUTES YOU, LIE DOWN AND PACIFY IT WITH COOL
THOUGHTS.
3. KEEP THE JUICES FLOWING BY JANGLING AROUND GENTLY AS YOU MOVE.
4. GO VERY LIGHT ON THE VICES, SUCH AS CARRYING ON IN SOCIETY.
THE SOCIAL RUMBLE AIN'T RESTFUL.
5. AVOID RUNNING AT ALL TIMES.
6. DON'T LOOK BACK. SOMETHING MAY BE GAINING ON YOU.
THERE IS SOMETHING FASCINATING ABOUT SCIENCE.
ONE GETS SUCH WHOLESALE CONJECTURE OUT OF SUCH TRIFLING INVESTMENTS.
-- MARK TWAIN
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
-- Plutarch
I WISH TO HAVE NO CONNECTION WITH ANY SHIP THAT DOES NOT SAIL FAST,
FOR I INTEND TO GO IN HARM'S WAY.
-- JOHN PAUL JONES, USN 1747-1792
ALL MY ATTEMPTS TO ADAPT THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS
TO THESE NEW NOTIONS FAILED COMPLETELY. IT WAS AS IF THE GROUND HAD
BEEN PULLED OUT FROM UNDER ONE WITH NO FIRM FOUNDATION TO BE SEEN ANYWHERE,
UPON WHICH ONE COULD HAVE BUILT. -- A.EINSTEIN
THE MOST INCOMPREHENSIBLE THING ABOUT THE WORLD
IS THAT IT IS COMPREHENSIBLE. -- A. EINSTEIN
FOR THE NATURE OF THE CHEMICAL BOND
IS THE PROBLEM AT THE HEART OF ALL CHEMISTRY.
-- BRYCE CRAWFORD, JR., 1953
THAT'S WHAT MAKES US A GREAT COUNTRY.
THE LITTLE THINGS ARE SERIOUS AND THE BIG ONES ARE NOT.
WILL ROGERS
A MAN IS NEVER SO BRILLIANT AS WHEN HE TAKES THE WORDS RIGHT OUT
OF YOUR MOUTH. -- ARNOT SHEPPARD, JR.
IT MATTERS NOT HOW DEEP YOU PLOW,
BUT HOW LONG YOU STAY IN THE FURROW.
We're simply so accustomed to the marvels of everyday thought
that we never wonder about it.
-- Marvin Minsky in "Why people think computers are smart"
ONE BIG VICE IN A MAN IS APT TO KEEP OUT MANY SMALLER ONES.
-- BRET HARTE
COMMON SENSE IS NOT SO COMMON. -- VOLTAIRE
Once you get people laughing, they're
listening and you can tell them almost anything.
-- Herb Gardner
THE MOLECULE ALSO HAS A BODY. WHEN THIS BODY IS HIT, THE MOLECULE
FEELS HURT ALL OVER -- A. KITAIGORODSKI
THERE IS AN OLD, OLD RECIPE IN MAINE FOR STEWING COOT. PLACE THE
BIRD IN A KETTLE OF WATER WITH A RED BUILDING BRICK FREE OF MORTAR AND
BLEMISHES. PARBOIL THE COOT AND BRICK TOGETHER FOR THREE HOURS.
POUR OFF THE WATER, REFILL THE KETTLE, AND AGAIN PARBOIL FOR THREE HOURS.
ONCE AGAIN POUR OFF THE WATER, FOR THE LAST TIME ADD FRESH WATER,
AND LET THE COOT AND BRICK SIMMER TOGETHER OVERNIGHT. IN THE MORNING,
THROW AWAY THE COOT AND EAT THE BRICK.
NO MATTER HOW THIN YOU SLICE IT, IT'S STILL BALONEY
-- ALFRED E. SMITH
KNIGHT- SIRE, I'VE JUST RETURNED FROM THE FRONT
KING- HOW GOES THE BATTLE
KNIGHT- THE SITUATION IS QUITE FLUID
KING- WHAT DOES *THAT* MEAN
KNIGHT- WE'RE UP THE CREEK
THE WIZARD OF ID
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
-- Richard Bach
NECESSARY EVIL: ONE WE LIKE TOO MUCH TO RELINQUISH.
OPTIMIST - A PESSIMIST WHO LACKS EXPERIENCE
IT IS BY EATING THE LIGHT OF A STAR THAT WE EXIST,
IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS,
JUST AS IT IS BY PERCEIVING THE LIGHT OF STARS
THAT WE DEFINE THE WORLD AROUND US.
-- GILBERT GROSVENOR
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(J.P.)
I think that all right-thinking people in this
country are sick and tired of being told that
ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country
with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not!
But I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!
-- Monty Python
ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE EXCEPT SKIING THROUGH A REVOLVING DOOR.
THE 2ND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS HAS THE SAME
DEGREE OF TRUTH AS THE STATEMENT THAT IF YOU THROW
A TUMBLERFULL OF WATER INTO THE SEA, YOU CANNOT GET
THE SAME TUMBLERFULL OF WATER OUT AGAIN.
- J.C. MAXWELL, LETTER TO LORD RAYLEIGH, DECEMBER 6,1870
THE VALUE OF PHILOSOPHY IS, IN FACT, TO BE SOUGHT LARGELY IN ITS
VERY UNCERTAINTY. THE MAN WHO HAS NO TINCTURE OF PHILOSOPHY GOES
THROUGH LIFE IMPRISONED IN THE PREJUDICES DERIVED FROM COMMON SENSE,
FROM THE HABITUAL BELIEFS OF HIS AGE OR HIS NATION, AND FROM
CONVICTIONS WHICH HAVE GROWN UP IN HIS MIND WITHOUT THE CO-OPERATION
OR CONSENT OF HIS DELIBERATE REASON. TO SUCH A MAN THE WORLD TENDS
TO BE DEFINITE, FINITE, OBVIOUS; COMMON OBJECTS ROUSE NO QUESTIONS,
AND UNFAMILIAR POSSIBILITIES ARE CONTEMPTUOUSLY REJECTED.
-- BERTRAND RUSSELL
... A MOLECULAR SYSTEM ... (PASSES) ... FROM ONE STATE OF EQUILIBRIUM
TO ANOTHER ... BY MEANS OF ALL POSSIBLE INTERMEDIATE PATHS,
BUT THE PATH MOST ECONOMICAL OF ENERGY WILL BE THE MORE OFTEN TRAVELED.
-- HENRY EYRING, 1945
THEREFORE SHALL EVIL COME UPON THEE...
THOU SHALT NOT KNOW FROM WHENCE IT RISETH...
AND MISCHIEF SHALL FALL UPON THEE...
THOU SHALT NOT BE ABLE TO PUT IT OFF...
AND DESOLATION SHALL COME UPON THEE SUDDENLY...
WHICH THOU SHALT NOT KNOW...
ISAIAH 47.11
CHILDREN YOU ARE VERY LITTLE,
AND YOUR BONES ARE VERY BRITTLE;
IF YOU WOULD GROW GREAT AND STATELY
YOU MUST TRY TO WALK SEDATELY.
YOU MUST STILL BE BRIGHT AND QUIET,
AND CONTENT WITH SIMPLE DIET;
AND REMAIN, THROUGH ALL BEWILD'RING
INNOCENT AND HONEST CHILDREN.
-- A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSE,
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
EXPERIENCE IS A WONDERFUL THING. IT ENABLES
YOU TO RECOGNIZE A MISTAKE WHEN YOU MAKE IT AGAIN.
- BACK OF A SUGAR PACKET
CONFIDENCE IS WHAT YOU FEEL BEFORE YOU FULLY
COMPREHEND THE SITUATION.
TRUTH, IN SCIENCE, CAN BE DEFINED AS THE WORKING HYPOTHESIS
BEST FITTED TO OPEN THE WAY TO THE NEXT BETTER ONE.
-- KONRAD LORENZ
IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, TRY, TRY AGAIN.
THEN GIVE UP;
THERE'S NO USE BEING A DAMN FOOL ABOUT IT.
-- W. C. FIELDS
10 WHATSOEVER THY HAND FINDETH TO DO, DO IT WITH THY
MIGHT. FOR THERE IS NO WORK, NOR DEVICE, NOR KNOWLEDGE, NOR
WISDOM, IN THE GRAVE, WHITHER THOU GOEST.
11 I RETURNED AND SAW UNDER THE SUN, THAT THE RACE IS NOT TO
THE SWIFT, NOR THE BATTLE TO THE STRONG, NEITHER YET BREAD TO
THE WISE, NOR YET RICHES TO MEN OF UNDERSTANDING, NOR YET
FAVOR TO MEN OF SKILL. BUT TIME AND CHANCE HAPPEN TO THEM ALL.
12 FOR MAN ALSO KNOWETH NOT HIS TIME. AS THE FISHES
THAT ARE TAKEN IN AN EVIL NET, AND AS THE BIRDS THAT ARE
CAUGHT IN THE SNARE. SO ARE THE SONS OF MEN SNARED IN AN EVIL
TIME, WHEN IT FALLETH SUDDENLY UPON THEM.
ECCLESIASTES 9
I WANT TO KNOW HOW GOD CREATED THE WORLD. I AM NOT INTERESTED IN
THIS OR THAT PHENOMENON, IN THE SPECTRUM OF THIS OR THAT ELEMENT.
I WANT TO KNOW HIS THOUGHTS, THE REST ARE DETAILS.
-- ALBERT EINSTEIN
TIME IS NATURE'S WAY OF MAKING SURE EVERYTHING
DOESN'T HAPPEN AT ONCE.
- WOODY ALLEN
NEVER LISTEN TO CRITICISM
OR YOU'LL BE DOIN' EVERYBODY ELSE'S THING BUT BUT YOUR OWN.
-- ANDY CAPP
IF IT HAPPENS, IT MUST BE POSSIBLE.
-- THE UNNAMED LAW FROM PAUL DICKSON'S
"THE OFFICIAL RULES"
AN OPTIMIST IS A GUY
THAT HAS NEVER HAD
MUCH EXPERIENCE
(CERTAIN MAXIMS OF ARCHY -- DON MARQUIS)
The cat could very well be man's best friend
but would never stoop to admitting it.
-- Doug Larson
THE RARE EARTHS PERPLEX US IN OUR RESEARCHES,
BAFFLE US IN OUR SPECULATIONS, AND HAUNT US IN OUR
VERY DREAMS. THEY STRETCH LIKE AN UNKNOWN BEFORE US,
MOCKING, MYSTIFYING, AND MURMURING STRANGE REVELATIONS
AND POSSIBILITIES. -- SIR WILLIAM CROOKE, 1832-1919
IT IS UNWORTHY OF EXCELLENT MEN TO LOSE HOURS LIKE SLAVES IN THE LABOR
OF CALCULATION WHICH COULD BE SAFELY RELEGATED TO ANYONE ELSE
IF A MACHINE WERE USED.
-- G.W. VON LEIBNIZ
IT IS DOUBTED WHETHER A MAN EVER BRINGS HIS FACULTIES TO BEAR WITH THEIR
FULL
FORCE
ON A SUBJECT UNTIL HE WRITES UPON IT.
-- CICERO
ERROR IS A HARDY PLANT... IT FLOURISHETH IN EVERY SOIL.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was
an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said,
"Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God
of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"
-- Quentin Crisp
LOGIC IS A SYSTEMATIC METHOD OF COMING TO THE
WRONG CONCLUSION WITH CONFIDENCE.
MICHAEL FARADAY, ASKED BY A POLITICIAN WHAT GOOD
HIS ELECTRICAL DISCOVERIES WERE, REPLIED
"AT PRESENT I DO NOT KNOW, BUT ONE DAY YOU WILL BE
ABLE TO TAX THEM."
ON THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST -
"STRONG REPRESENTATIVES FROM EACH PAST ERA THRIVE TODAY,
SUCH AS PROGRAMMING IN THE THIRTY YEAR OLD LANGUAGE KNOWN
AS FORTRAN, AND EVEN IN THE ANCIENT SCRIPT KNOWN AS DIRECT
MACHINE CODE. SOME PEOPLE MIGHT LOOK ON SUCH RELICS AS LIVING
FOSSILS; OTHERS WOULD POINT OUT THAT EVEN A VERY OLD SPECIES
MIGHT STILL BE FILLING A PARTICULAR ECOLOGICAL NICHE."
-- ALAN KAY, SCI.AM. SEPTEMBER 1984
THE FIRST AND LAST THING REQUIRED OF GENIUS IS THE LOVE OF TRUTH.
-- GOETHE
IN THIS SHORT LIFE
THAT ONLY LASTS AN HOUR
HOW MUCH, HOW LITTLE, IS WITHIN OUR POWER....
EMILY DICKINSON BOLTS OF MELODY NO. 521
EVANS BOLDLY PUT 50 ATM. OF ETHYLENE IN A CELL WITH 25 ATM. OF OXYGEN.
THE APPARATUS SUBSEQUENTLY BLEW UP, BUT LUCKILY NOT BEFORE HE
OBTAINED THE SPECTRA SHOWN IN FIGURE 8.
A.J.MERER AND R.S.MULLIKEN, CHEM.REV. 69, 645 (1969)
ALTHOUGH J.J. COULD DIAGNOSE THE FAULTS OF AN
APPARATUS WITH UNCANNY ACCURACY, IT WAS JUST AS
WELL NOT TO LET HIM HANDLE IT.
-- GEORGE THOMPSON, ABOUT HIS FATHER
I DO NOT DEFINE TIME, SPACE, PLACE, AND MOTION, AS BEING WELL KNOWN TO ALL.
-- NEWTON (1642-1726), PRINCIPIA
DEFINE YOUR TERMS, YOU WILL PERMIT ME AGAIN TO SAY,
OR WE SHALL NEVER UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER.
-- VOLTAIRE
The impersonal hand of government can
never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
KINETICS FACT
--------- = -------
MECHANISM FICTION
IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE LAW - ARGUE THE FACTS.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE FACTS - ARGUE THE LAW.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE EITHER - POUND THE TABLE.
NATURE GIVES TO EVERY TIME AND SEASON SOME BEAUTY OF ITS OWN.
--DICKENS
NOTHING WILL BE ATTEMPTED IF ALL POSSIBLE OBJECTIONS
MUST FIRST BE OVERCOME.
-- THE GOLDEN PRINCIPLE,
PAUL DICKSON'S "THE OFFICIAL RULES"
HE THAT WALD REACHE THE SWEITE ROSE
SULD NOW AND THEN BE SCRATCHED WT THE SCHARPE BREERES.
-- PROVERBS AND REASONS OF THE YEAR 1585
AS REPRINTED IN PAISLEY MAGAZINE 1828.
At the touch of love, everyone becomves a poet.
-- Plato
REFRAIN FROM ILLUSIONS, INSIST ON WORK AND NOT WORDS,
PATIENTLY SEEK DIVINE AND SCIENTIFIC TRUTH.
LAST WORDS OF MARIA MENDELEEVA TO HER SON DMITRI, C. 1850
IBM COMPATIBILITY IS LIKE PREGNANCY. YOU ARE OR
OR YOU ARE NOT. -- ADAM OSBORNE
I CLAIM NOT TO HAVE CONTROLLED EVENTS,
BUT CONFESS PLAINLY THAT EVENTS HAVE CONTROLLED ME.
A. LINCOLN
THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT EVERYBODY THINKS THEY CAN DO BETTER THAN
ANYONE ELSE - PUNCH THE FIRE, AND EDIT A DAILY PAPER.
-- UNCLE ESEK, "CENTURY MAGAZINE", 1885
EXPERIENCE IS THE FRUIT OF THE TREE OF ERRORS.
BREAD HAS TO MOLD IN ORDER TO GET PENICILLIN.
-- JERRY BOATZ
IT PROBABLY IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR A SCIENTIST TO INTERROGATE NATURE
FROM A WHOLLY DISINTERESTED VIEWPOINT.
EVEN IF HE HAS NO PARTICULAR AXE TO GRIND, HE IS LIKELY TO HAVE
A DISTINCTIVE WAY OF VIEWING NATURE.
-- JOHN LOSEE
A COMPUTER IS LIKE A HORSE, IT WILL SENSE WEAKNESS.
-- GREG WETTSTEIN
A MUSTACHE HAIR ACROSS A CHIP IS LIKE A REDWOOD
TREE FALLING THROUGH A HOUSING PROJECT.
- AN IBM MANAGER IN EAST FISHKILL, NEW YORK
AS QUOTED IN "FROM SANDS TO CIRCUITS", IBM INNOVATION JANUARY 1985.
KNOWLEDGE IS CHIMERA - FOR BEYOND IT LIES OTHER KNOWLEDGE,
AND THE INCOMPLETENESS OF WHAT IS KNOWN RENDERS THE KNOWING FALSE.
-- THE THOMAS COVENANT CHRONICLES
A BIRD IN THE HAND IS SAFER THAN ONE OVERHEAD.
-- NEWTON'S SEVENTH LAW
TO SEE A WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND
AND A HEAVEN IN A WILD FLOWER
HOLD INFINITY IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND
AND ETERNITY IN AN HOUR
-- WILLIAM BLAKE
THESE ARE THE TIMES THAT TRY MENS SOULS.
THE SUMMER SOLDIER AND THE SUNSHINE PATRIOT WILL IN THIS CRISIS,
SHRINK FROM THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY. BUT HE THAT STANDS NOW,
DESERVES THE LOVE AND THANKS OF MAN AND WOMAN.
TYRANNY, LIKE HELL, IS NOT EASILY CONQUERED,
YET WE HAVE THIS CONSOLATION WITH US,
THAT THE HARDER THE CONFLICT, THE MORE GLORIOUS THE TRIUMPH.
WHAT WE OBTAIN TOO CHEAP, WE ESTEEM TOO LIGHTLY,
'TIS DEARNESS ONLY THAT GIVES EVERYTHING ITS VALUE.
-- TOM PAINE
TO ERR IS HUMAN - AND TO BLAME IT ON A COMPUTER IS EVEN MORE SO.
DESK: A WASTEBASKET WITH DRAWERS.
FRICTION IS A DRAG,
AND ENTROPY AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE.
ALL PAPERS THAT YOU SAVE WILL NEVER BE NEEDED UNTIL
SUCH TIME AS THEY ARE DISPOSED OF, WHEN THEY BECOME
ESSENTIAL.
-- JOHN CORCORAN IN
PAUL DICKSON'S "THE OFFICIAL RULES"
"I COULD HAVE DONE IT IN A MUCH MORE COMPLICATED WAY"
SAID THE RED QUEEN, IMMENSELY PROUD.
-- LEWIS CARROLL
FIREWORKS ENDED
AND SPECTATORS GONE AWAY....
AH, HOW VAST AND DARK
SHIKI
The arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
IT IS BETTER TO THINK YOU ARE HALF DRY THAN TO KNOW YOU
ARE ALL WET. -- SNOOPY
BE CAREFUL NOT TO BECOME TOO GOOD OF A SONGBIRD OR
THEY'LL THROW YOU INTO A CAGE.
-- SNOOPY TO WOODSTOCK
IT IS A PROFOUNDLY ERRONEOUS TRUISM ... THAT WE SHOULD CULTIVATE
THE HABIT OF THINKING OF WHAT WE ARE DOING.
THE PRECISE OPPOSITE IS THE CASE.
CIVILIZATION ADVANCES BY EXTENDING THE NUMBER OF IMPORTANT OPERATIONS
WHICH WE CAN PERFORM WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT THEM.
-- ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000
vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers inthe future
may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1 1/2 tons.
---Popular Mechanics, March 1949
A SLIP OF THE FOOT YOU MAY SOON RECOVER, BUT A SLIP OF THE TONGUE
YOU MAY NEVER GET OVER. -- BEN FRANKLIN
THERE ARE PEOPLE SO ADDICTED TO EXAGERATING THEY
CAN'T TELL THE TRUTH WITHOUT LYING. -- FORTUNE COOKIE
MY DESCRIPTION OF EXPERIENCE IS NOT WHAT HAPPENS
TO A MAN. EXPERIENCE IS WHAT A MAN DOES WITH WHAT
HAPPENS TO HIM.
- CHUCK KNOX, SEATTLE SEAHAWKS, 1985
IF NO USE IS MADE OF THE LABOR OF PAST AGES,
THE WORLD MUST REMAIN ALWAYS IN THE INFANCY OF KNOWLEDGE.
-- CICERO
BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO NOUGHT EXPECT,
FOR THEY SHALL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.. WALCOT - ODE TO PITT
LIFE IS A CONTINUAL STRUGGLE AGAINST THE TENDENCY TO PRODUCE ENTROPY.
A MAN BEGINS CUTTING HIS WISDOM TEETH THE 1ST
TIME HE BITES OFF MORE THAN HE CAN CHEW.
MAN IS THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS.
-- PROTAGORAS (5TH CENTURY B.C.)
IF YOU PERCEIVE THAT THERE ARE FOUR POSSIBLE WAYS IN
WHICH A PROCEDURE CAN GO WRONG AND CIRCUMVENT THESE,
THEN A FIFTH WAY WILL DEVELOP.
-- MURPHY'S TWELFTH LAW
HERE WE GO......
SLIDING DOWN THE RAZOR BLADE OF LIFE......
TOM LEHRER
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
-- Lady Bird Johnson
I HAVE NOT FAILED, I HAVE ONLY DISCOVERED 10,000
WAYS THAT DIDN'T WORK. -- THOMAS A. EDISON
THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH FOLLOWING A TRAIN OF THOUGHT...
AS LONG AS IT ULTIMATELY PULLS INTO THE STATION.
YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES.
THE DIFFICULTY IN SCIENCE IS OFTEN NOT SO MUCH HOW
TO MAKE A DISCOVERY BUT RATHER TO KNOW ONE HAS MADE IT.
-- J. D. BERNAL
ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF A COLLEGE EDUCATION
IS TO SHOW THE BOY ITS LITTLE AVAIL
EMERSON IN 'CULTURE'
KNOWING HOW CONTENTED, FREE, AND JOYFUL IS LIFE IN
THE REALMS OF SCIENCE, ONE FERVENTLY WISHES THAT
MANY WOULD ENTER HER PORTALS.
-- DMITRI IVANOVICH MENDELEEV
"FIRST PRINCIPLES OF CHEMISTRY", LONGMANS, GREEN,
AND CO. LONDON, 1891
IF YOU WANT TO LEARN FROM THE THEORETICAL PHYSICISTS ABOUT THE
METHODS WHICH THEY USE, I ADVISE YOU TO FOLLOW THIS PRINCIPLE VERY
STRICTLY:
DON'T LISTEN TO THEIR WORDS; PAY ATTENTION, INSTEAD, TO THEIR ACTIONS.
-- A.EINSTEIN, 1934
DIATOMIC MOLECULES ARE PECULIAR BECAUSE THEY ONLY HAVE TWO ENDS,
AND THESE ENDS ARE VERY CLOSE TOGETHER.
KLAUS RUEDENBERG, REV.MOD.PHYS. PG 176, 32, (1960)
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER
-- ALICE, IN WONDERLAND
SUCCESS IS COUNTED SWEETEST
BY THOSE WHO NE'ER SUCCEED.
TO COMPREHEND NECTAR
REQUIRES SOREST NEED.
EMILY DICKINSON
THE REASON MAN'S BEST FRIEND IS A DOG IS BECAUSE
HE WAGS HIS TAIL INSTEAD OF HIS TONGUE.
AN AIRPLANE IS A COLLECTION OF SPARE PARTS
FLYING IN CLOSE FORMATION.
SIGN SEEN IN A RESTAURANT-
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SERVE REFUSE TO ANYONE.
IF IT'S NOT TRUE, IT'S WELL INVENTED -- DANTE
O WAD SOME POWER THE GIFTIE GIE US
TO SEE OURSELS AS OTHERS SEE US.....
IT WOULD FRAE MONIE A BLUNDER FREE US,
AND FOOLISH NOTION...
WHAT AIRS IN DRESS AND GAIT WAD LEA'E US,
AND EV'N DEVOTION....
(ROBERT BURNS 'TO A LOUSE')
IF YOU WISH TO UNDERSTAND THE FRAGRANCE OF THE ROSE,
OR THE TENACITY OF THE OAK;
IF YOU ARE NOT SATISFIED UNTIL YOU KNOW THE SECRET PATHS
BY WHICH THE SUNSHINE AND THE AIR ACHIEVE THESE WONDERS;
IF YOU WISH TO SEE THE PATTERN WHICH UNDERLIES ONE LARGE FIELD OF
HUMAN EXPERIENCE AND HUMAN MEASUREMENT, THEN TAKE UP CHEMISTRY.
-- C. A. COULSON, 1973.
YOU CAN LEAD A BOY TO COLLEGE....
BUT YOU CANNOT MAKE HIM THINK....
ELBERT HUBBARD
The hours that make us happy make us wise.
-- John Masefield
LIFE CAN ONLY BE UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD, BUT MUST
BE LIVED FORWARD. -- KIRKEGAARD
The earth never tires,
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first,
Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first,
Be not discouraged, keep on,
There are divine things well envelop'd,
I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
-- Walt Whitman
THE REAL VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY CONSISTS NOT IN SEEKING NEW LANDSCAPES
BUT IN HAVING NEW EYES.
-- MARCEL PROUST
TOM, TOM, THE BURGLAR'S SON
STOLE A MACHINE AND AWAY HE RUN
THE JOB WAS NEAT, BUT TOM GOT BEAT
BY THE TIME HE GOT HOME IT WAS OBSOLETE.
LAW OF COMPENSATION:
NO CALCULATION IS EVER A COMPLETE FAILURE; IT
CAN ALWAYS SERVE AS A BAD EXAMPLE.
-- ANON
THE PROGRESS OF RIVERS TO THE SEA IS NOT AS RAPID
AS THAT OF MAN TO ERROR.
-- VOLTAIRE
SACRED COWS MAKE GREAT HAMBURGERS -- ROBERT REISNER
LET US REMEMBER, PLEASE, THAT THE SEARCH FOR THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE WORLD IS ONE OF THE GREATEST AND NOBLEST PROBLEMS PRESENTED
BY NATURE.
-- GALILEO
MANHOOD BEGINS BY TRYING TO SHAVE FACE,
AND ENDS BY TRYING TO SAVE FACE.
WHAT, THEN, IS TIME? IF NO ONE ASKS ME, I KNOW WHAT IT IS.
IF I WISH TO EXPLAIN WHAT IT IS TO HIM WHO ASKS ME, I DO NOT KNOW.
-- ST. AUGUSTINE (FIFTH CENTURY)
"ANNA, YOU MUSN'T SPEAK OF OXIDIZED MURIATIC ACID
ANYMORE, FROM NOW ON YOU MUST SAY CHLORINE."
-- JENS JACOB BERZELIUS, IN 1820, TO HIS COOK, WHO HAD
COMPLAINED OF THE SMELL OF THE FLASK SHE WAS CLEANING.
AND THIS OUR LIFE, EXEMPT FROM PUBLIC HAUNT,
FINDS TONGUES IN TREES, BOOKS IN THE RUNNING BROOKS,
SERMONS IN STONES, AND GOOD IN EVERYTHING.
I WOULD NOT CHANGE IT. -- W. SHAKESPEARE
AS YOU LIKE IT, ACT II, SCENE 1.
THERE'S A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE
-- PHINEAS TAYLOR (P.T.) BARNUM
THOSE WHO ARE UNABLE TO LEARN FROM PAST MEETINGS
ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT THEM.
ARTHROPOD AXIOM: A COMPUTER SYSTEM IS LIKE A SPIDER'S WEB.
YOU CANNOT PULL ON ONE END WITHOUT MAKING THE OTHER END MOVE.
-- GREG WETTSTEIN
"THE TIME HAS COME", THE WALRUS SAID,
"TO TALK OF MANY THINGS,
OF SHOES AND SHIPS AND SEALING WAX,
OF CABBAGES AND KINGS,
AND WHY THE SEA IS BOILING HOT,
AND WHETHER PIGS HAVE WINGS."
You don't have to suffer to be a poet.
Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi
HUMANKIND PERIODICALLY GOES THROUGH A SPEEDUP OF ITS AFFAIRS,
THEREBY EXPERIENCING THE RACE BETWEEN THE RENEWABLE VITALITY
OF THE LIVING, AND THE BECKONING VITIATION OF DECADENCE.
IN THIS PERIODIC RACE, ANY PAUSE BECOMES A LUXURY.
ONLY THEN CAN ONE REFLECT THAT ALL IS PERMITTED;
ALL IS POSSIBLE.
-- THE APOCRYPHA OF MUAD'DIB
CHILDREN OF DUNE, BY FRANK HERBERT
IMAGINATION WILL OFTEN CARRY US TO WORLDS THAT NEVER WERE.
BUT WITHOUT IT, WE GO NOWHERE. -- CARL SAGAN (COSMOS)
UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES
WHENAS IN SILKS MY JULIA GOES,
THEN, THEN, METHINKS, HOW SWEETLY FLOWS
THAT LIQUEFACTION OF HER CLOTHES.
NEXT, WHEN I CAST MINE EYES, AND SEE
THAT BRAVE VIBRATION, EACH WAY FREE,
O, HOW THAT GLITTERING TAKETH ME!
-- ROBERT HERRICK, 1648
TIMES HAVE CHANGED. IN THE BIBLE WHEN AN ASS
SPOKE IT WAS CONSIDERED A MIRACLE.
BE NOT THE FIRST BY WHOM THE NEW ARE TRIED,
NOR YET THE THE LAST TO LAY THE OLD ASIDE.
-- ALEXANDER POPE
I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I MAY APPEAR TO THE WORLD; BUT TO MYSELF
I SEEM TO HAVE BEEN ONLY LIKE A BOY PLAYING ON THE SEASHORE,
AND DIVERTING MYSELF IN NOW AND THEN FINDING A SMOOTHER PEBBLE
OR A PRETTIER SHELL THAN ORDINARY, WHILST THE GREAT OCEAN OF
TRUTH LAY ALL UNDISCOVERED BEFORE ME.
-- NEWTON (1642-1726)
SILVERMAN'S PARADOX - IF MURPHY'S LAW CAN GO WRONG, IT WILL.
THE MOST SERIOUS THREAT TO THE SURVIVAL OF MANKIND IS NOT NOW
IGNORANCE IN THE TRADITIONAL SENSE,
BUT A MORALLY NEUTRAL, AN INSENSITIVE OR INHIBITED HUMAN INTELLIGENCE.
-- MARGO JEFFERSON IN NEWSWEEK, SEPTEMBER 2, 1974
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the
ability to learn from the experience of others, are
also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams,
Last Chance to See
MICRO CREDO - NEVER TRUST A COMPUTER BIGGER
BIGGER THAN YOU CAN LIFT.
ON THE CHOICE OF THE CORRECT LANGUAGE -
I SPEAK SPANISH TO GOD, ITALIAN TO WOMEN,
FRENCH TO MEN, AND GERMAN TO MY HORSE.
-- CHARLES V
SCIENCE AND PEACE WILL TRIUMPH OVER IGNORANCE AND WAR
-- PASTEUR
WE LEARN WISDOM FROM FAILURE MUCH MORE THAN FROM SUCCESS.
WE DISCOVER WHAT WILL DO BY FINDING OUT WHAT WILL NOT DO...
AND HE WHO NEVER MADE A MISTAKE NEVER MADE A DISCOVERY
IT IS A SIMPLE TASK TO MAKE THINGS COMPLEX,
BUT A COMPLEX TASK TO MAKE THEM SIMPLE.
DEMOCRATS BUY MOST OF THE BOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN
BANNED; REPUBLICANS FORM CENSORSHIP COMMITTEES AND
READ THEM AS A GROUP.
GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT
A successful marriage requires falling in love
many times, always with the same person.
-- Mignon McLaughlin
EDUCATION WITHOUT COMMON SENSE IS A LOAD OF BOOKS ON THE BACK OF AN ASS.
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
-- William Drayton
WHAT THE SLIME CONTAINS, THE GLOWING REVEALS
BY THE FLAME'S BRIGHT HUE WHEN YOU IGNITE IT.
-- LEONARD THURNEYSSER, 1531-1596
DESCRIBING HIS FLAME PHOTOLYSIS ANALYTIC METHOD
QUANTUM MECHANICS IS BOHRING -- M.S. GORDON
WERE I TO AWAIT PERFECTION, MY BOOK WOULD NEVER BE FINISHED.
-- HISTORY OF CHINESE WRITING
TAI T'UNG, 13TH CENTURY
ERROR IS THE FORCE THAT WELDS MEN TOGETHER....
TRUTH IS COMMUNICATED TO MEN ONLY BY DEEDS OF TRUTH.
TOLSTOI,MY RELIGION
BETTER TO HUNT IN FIELDS, FOR HEALTH UNBOUGHT
THAN FEE THE DOCTOR FOR A NAUSEOUS DRAUGHT.
THE WISE, FOR CURE, ON EXERCISE DEPEND;
GOD NEVER MADE HIS WORK FOR MAN TO MEND.
-- JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)
I KNOW YOU BELIEVE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU THINK I SAID,
BUT I AM NOT SURE YOU REALIZE THAT WHAT YOU HEARD IS NOT WHAT I MEANT.
LEARN FROM YESTERDAY,
LIVE FOR TODAY,
LOOK TO TOMORROW,
REST THIS AFTERNOON.
-- SNOOPY
SEE YOU NOW,
YOUR BAIT OF FALSEHOOD TAKES THIS CARP OF TRUTH.
AND THUS DO WE OF WISDOM AND OF REACH...
BY INDIRECTIONS FIND DIRECTIONS OUT. -- HAMLET, II, 1
"WHERE SHALL I START, PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY?" HE ASKED.
"BEGIN AT THE BEGINNING," THE KING SAID GRAVELY,
"AND GO ON TILL YOU COME TO THE END: THEN STOP."
-- LEWIS CARROLL
NOBODY LOSES ALL THE TIME
I HAD AN UNCLE NAMED
SOL WHO WAS A BORN FAILURE AND
NEARLY EVERYBODY SAID HE SHOULD HAVE GONE
INTO VAUDEVILLE PERHAPS BECAUSE MY UNCLE SOL COULD
SING MCCANN HE WAS A DIVER ON XMAS EVE LIKE HELL ITSELF WHICH
MAY OR MAY NOT ACCOUNT FOR THE FACT THAT MY UNCLE
SOL INDULGED IN THAT POSSIBLY MOST INEXCUSABLE
OF ALL TO USE A HIGHFALOOTIN PHRASE
LUXURIES THAT IS OR TO
WIT FARMING AND BE
IT NEEDLESSLY
ADDED
MY UNCLE SOL'S FARM
FAILED BECAUSE THE CHICKENS
ATE THE VEGETABLES SO
MY UNCLE SOL HAD A
CHICKEN FARM TILL THE
SKUNKS ATE THE CHICKENS WHEN
MY UNCLE SOL
HAD A SKUNK FARM BUT
THE SKUNKS CAUGHT COLD AND
DIED AND SO
MY UNCLE SOL IMITATED THE
SKUNKS IN A SUBTLE MANNER
OR BY DROWNING HIMSELF IN THE WATERTANK
BUT SOMEBODY WHO'D GIVEN MY UNCLE SOL A VICTOR
VICTROLA AND RECORDS WHILE HE LIVED PRESENTED TO
HIM UPON THE AUSPICIOUS OCCASION OF HIS DECEASE A
SCRUMPTIOUS NOT TO MENTION SPLENDIFEROUS FUNERAL WITH
TALL BOYS IN BLACK GLOVES AND FLOWERS AND EVERYTHING AND
I REMEMBER WE ALL CRIED LIKE THE MISSOURI
WHEN MY UNCLE SOL'S COFFIN LURCHED BECAUSE
SOMEBODY PRESSED A BUTTON
(AND DOWN WENT
MY UNCLE
SOL
AND STARTED A WORM FARM)
E. E. CUMMINGS
THE CHYMISTS ARE A STRANGE CLASS OF MORTALS IMPELLED
BY AN ALMOST INSANE IMPULSE TO SEEK THEIR PLEASURE
AMONG SMOKE AND VAPOR, SOOT AND FLAME, POISONS AND
POVERTY; YET AMONG ALL THESE EVILS I SEEM TO LIVE
SO SWEETLY, THAT I MAY DIE IF I WOULD CHANGE PLACES
WITH THE PERSIAN KING.
-- JOHANN JOACHIM BECHER, 1635-1682
ACTA LABORATORII CHYMICA MONACENSIS, 1669
SUCCESS IS NEVER CERTAIN,
FAILURE IS NEVER FINAL.
... THE UNIVERSE IS NOT ONLY QUEERER THAN WE SUPPOSE,
BUT QUEERER THAN WE CAN SUPPOSE ...
-- J. B. S. HALDANE
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
YOU CANNOT THROW TO THE GROUND THE LETTERS OF
THE GREEK ALPHABET AND PICK UP THE ILIAD.
- RUFUS CHOATE, 1799-1859
BE LIKE A POSTAGE STAMP. STICK TO ONE THING UNTIL
YOU GET THERE -- JOSH BILLINGS
THE LENGTH OF A MEETING IS PROPORTIONAL TO THE
SQUARE OF THE PARTICIPANTS.
THE PROBLEM WITH THE LADDER OF SUCCESS IS YOU CAN'T
CLIMB IT WHILE YOU'RE TWIDDLING YOUR THUMBS.
OLD AGE AND TREACHERY WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL OVER YOUTH AND SKILL.
THE THINKER DIES, BUT HIS THOUGHTS ARE BEYOND THE
REACH OF DESTRUCTION. MEN ARE MORTAL; BUT IDEAS
ARE IMMORTAL.
-- WALTER LIPPMANN
IT IS A CAPITAL MISTAKE TO THEORIZE BEFORE ONE HAS
DATA. INSENSIBLY ONE BEGINS TO TWIST FACTS TO SUIT
THEORIES RATHER THAN THEORIES TO SUIT FACTS.
-- SHERLOCK HOLMES
IT CANNOT BE MY BEAUTY, FOR I HAVE NONE; AND IT CANNOT BE MY WIT,
FOR HE HAS NOT ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT I HAVE ANY.
-- CATHARINE SEDLEY, PUZZLED ABOUT WHY SHE WAS MISTRESS TO JAMES II
ERWIN WITH HIS PSI CAN DO
CALCULATIONS QUITE A FEW.
BUT ONE THING HAS NOT BEEN SEEN
JUST WHAT DOES PSI REALLY MEAN.
-- WALTER HUCKEL, TRANS. BY FELIX BLOCH
A MAN THINKING OR WORKING IS ALWAYS ALONE,
LET HIM BE WHERE HE WILL.
-- THOREAU
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE WE CAN HAVE IS THE MYSTERIOUS.
IT IS THE FUNDAMENTAL EMOTION WHICH STANDS AT AT THE CRADLE
OF TRUE ART AND TRUE SCIENCE.
-- ALBERT EINSTEIN
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching
for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make
its home for life. For this task it has a rudimentary
nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it
doesn't need its brain any more so it eats it.
It's rather like getting tenure.
-- source unknown
HICKORY, DICKORY, DOCK
TWO MICE RAN UP THE CLOCK
THE CLOCK STRUCK ONE...
THE OTHER ESCAPED WITH MINOR INJURIES.
THERE IS NO CURE FOR BIRTH AND DEATH SAVE TO ENJOY THE INTERVAL.
-- GEORGE SANTAYANA
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
-- Jonathan Winters
IF YOU GIVE A BOY AND A PIG EVERYTHING THEY WANT,
YOU'LL GET A BAD BOY AND A GOOD PIG.
CLIMB THE MOUNTAINS AND GET THEIR GOOD TIDINGS.
NATURE'S PEACE WILL FLOW INTO YOU AS SUNSHINE FLOWS INTO TREES.
THE WINDS WILL BLOW THEIR OWN FRESHNESS INTO YOU,
AND CARES WILL DROP OFF LIKE AUTUMN LEAVES.
-- JOHN MUIR
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
-- William Arthur Ward
IN-LAWS ARE LIKE SEEDS. YOU DON'T NEED THEM
BUT THEY COME WITH THE TOMATO.
ON A CLEAR DISK YOU CAN SEEK FOREVER.
WE THE UNWILLING
LED BY THE UNQUALIFIED
HAVE BEEN DOING THE UNBELIEVABLE SO LONG WITH SO LITTLE
THAT WE NOW ATTEMPT THE IMPOSSIBLE WITH NOTHING.
-- ANONYMOUS
WE SHOULD BE CAREFUL TO GET OUT OF AN EXPERIENCE ONLY THE WISDOM
THAT IS IN IT -- AND STOP THERE;
LEST WE BE LIKE THE CAT THAT SITS DOWN ON A HOT STOVE-LID.
SHE WILL NEVER SIT DOWN ON A HOT STOVE LID AGAIN;
BUT ALSO SHE WILL NEVER SIT DOWN ON A COLD ONE ANY MORE.
-- MARK TWAIN
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A NOOSE AND A HALO IS ONLY 12 INCHES.
IT WAS AN ACT OF DESPARATION. FOR SIX YEARS I HAD STRUGGLED WITH THE
BLACKBODY THEORY. I KNEW THE PROBLEM WAS FUNDAMENTAL, AND I KNEW
THE ANSWER. I HAD TO FIND A THEORETICAL EXPLANATION AT ANY COST,
EXCEPT FOR THE INVIOLABLITY OF THE TWO LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS.
-- MAX PLANCK, 1931
WHEN YOU'VE SEEN ONE NUCLEAR WAR YOU'VE SEEN THEM ALL.
WE ARE REACHING THE STAGE WHERE THE PROBLEMS WE MUST SOLVE ARE
GOING TO BECOME INSOLUBLE WITHOUT COMPUTERS.
I DO NOT FEAR COMPUTERS. I FEAR THE LACK OF THEM.
-- ISSAC ASIMOV
DISAPPOINTMENT IS THE NURSE OF WISDOM.
SIR BOYLE ROCHE
IF THE FACTS DO NOT CONFORM TO THE THEORY, THEY MUST BE DISPOSED OF.
IF GOD HAD MEANT MAN TO SEE THE SUN RISE, HE
WOULD HAVE SCHEDULED IT FOR A LATER HOUR.
DO NOT LET SELFISH MEN OR GREEDY INTERESTS SKIN YOUR COUNTRY OF ITS
BEAUTY, ITS RICHES, OR ITS ROMANCE. -- THEODORE ROOSEVELT
GOOD SENSE ABOUT TRIVIALITIES IS BETTER THAN NONSENSE
ABOUT THINGS THAT MATTER
-- MAX BEERBOHM
THOUGH I SPEAK WITH THE TONGUES OF MEN AND OF ANGELS,
AND HAVE NOT LOVE,
I AM BECOME AS SOUNDING BRASS, A TINKLING CYMBAL.
AND THOUGH I HAVE THE GIFT OF PROPHECY,
AND UNDERSTAND ALL MYSTERIES, AND ALL KNOWLEDGE.
AND THOUGH I HAVE ALL FAITH, SO THAT I COULD REMOVE MOUNTAINS,
AND HAVE NOT LOVE, I AM NOTHING.
AND THOUGH I BESTOW ALL MY GOODS TO FEED THE POOR,
AND THOUGH I GIVE MY BODY TO BE BURNED,
AND HAVE NOT LOVE IT PROFITETH ME NOTHING.
LOVE SUFFERETH LONG, AND IS KIND,
LOVE ENVIETH NOT,
LOVE VAUNTETH NOT ITSELF, IS NOT PUFFED UP,
DOTH NOT BEHAVE ITSELF UNSEEMLY, SEEKETH NOT HER OWN,
IS NOT EASILY PROVOKED, THINKETH NO EVIL,
REJOICETH NOT IN INIQUITY, BUT REJOICETH IN THE TRUTH,
BEARETH ALL THINGS, BELIEVETH ALL THINGS,
HOPETH ALL THINGS, ENDURETH ALL THINGS.
LOVE NEVER FAILETH, BUT WHETHER THERE BE PROPHECIES, THEY SHALL FAIL,
WHETHER THERE BE TONGUES, THEY SHALL CEASE,
WHETHER THERE BE KNOWLEDGE, IT SHALL VANISH AWAY.
FOR WE KNOW IN PART, AND WE PROPHESY IN PART.
BUT WHEN THAT WHICH IS PERFECT IS COME, THEN THAT WHICH IS IN PART
SHALL BE DONE AWAY.
WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I SPAKE AS A CHILD, I UNDERSTOOD AS A CHILD,
I THOUGHT AS A CHILD.
BUT WHEN I BECAME A MAN, I PUT AWAY CHILDISH THINGS.
FOR NOW WE SEE THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY, BUT THEN FACE TO FACE.
NOW I KNOW IN PART. BUT THEN SHALL I KNOW EVEN AS ALSO I AM KNOWN.
AND NOW ABIDETH FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE, THESE THREE.
BUT THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE.
I CORINTHIANS 13
THERE ONCE WAS A GIRL NAMED IRENE,
WHO LIVED ON DISTILLED KEROSENE,
BUT SHE STARTED ABSORBIN'
A NEW HYDROCARBON,
AND SINCE THEN HAS NEVER BENZENE.
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ECCENTRICS AND JOGGERS
IS THAT JOGGERS WEAR SWEATBANDS WHEN THEY RUN IN THE RAIN.
... UNTIL SCIENCE IS MIXED WITH EMOTION AND APPEALS TO THE HEART AND
IMAGINATION , IT IS LIKE DEAD INORGANIC MATTER; AND WHEN IT IS SO MIXED
AND SO TRANSFORMED IT IS LITERATURE.
-- JOHN BURROUGHS
SEEN ON A WALL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO CIRCLE:
TO DO IS TO BE -- SOCRATES
TO BE IS TO DO -- SARTRE
OO BE DO BE DO -- SINATRA
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a
meaning of which I disapprove.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
THE TEST OF A FIRST RATE INTELLIGENCE IS THE ABILITY TO HOLD TWO OPPOSED
IDEAS IN THE MIND AT THE SAME TIME, AND STILL RETAIN THE ABILITY TO
FUNCTION.
ONE SHOULD, FOR EXAMPLE, BE ABLE TO SEE THAT THINGS ARE HOPELESS AND YET BE
DETERMINED TO MAKE THEM OTHERWISE.
-- F. SCOTT
FITZGERALD
SCIENCE SANS CONSCIENCE N'EST QUE RUINE DE L'AME.
-- RABELAIS
"PERFECTION IS NOT AN ACCIDENT"
-- EAGLE ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO.,INC. NY
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
-- Bill Cosby
NO HUMAN INVESTIGATION CAN BECOME REAL SCIENCE
WITHOUT GOING THROUGH MATHEMATICAL PEOPLE.
-- LEONARDO DA VINCI, IN "PENSIERI" CA. 1492
UNLESS WE CHANGE DIRECTIONS, WE WILL WIND UP WHERE WE ARE HEADED.
-- CONFUCIUS
IN THE FIGHT BETWEEN YOU AND THE WORLD, BACK THE WORLD
-- FRANZ KAFKA
WORK FAITHFULLY FOR EIGHT HOURS A DAY AND DON'T WORRY.
IN TIME YOU MAY BECOME BOSS AND WORK TWELVE HOURS A DAY
AND HAVE ALL THE WORRY.
A DANDELION FROM A LOVER MEANS MORE THAN AN ORCHID FROM A FRIEND.
THE MORE ACCURATE THE CALCULATIONS BECOME, THE MORE THE CONCEPTS
TEND TO VANISH INTO THIN AIR.
-- R.S. MULLIKEN, J.C.P. 43,S2(1965)
WE'RE IN THE POSITION OF A VISITOR FROM ANOTHER
DIMENSION WHO COMES TO EARTH AND SEES A CHESS MATCH.
ASSUMING HE KNOWS IT'S A GAME, HE'S GOT TWO PROBLEMS:
FIRST, FIGURE OUT THE RULES, AND SECOND, FIGURE OUT HOW TO WIN.
NINETY PERCENT OF SCIENCE (INCLUDING VIRTUALLY ALL OF CHEMISRY)
IS IN THAT SECOND CATEGORY. THEY'RE TRYING TO APPLY
THE LAWS THAT ARE ALREADY KNOWN.
-- SHELDON GLASHOW, 1979
MAN IS A SINGULAR CREATURE. HE HAS A SET OF GIFTS
WHICH MAKE HIM UNIQUE AMONG THE ANIMALS: SO THAT,
UNLIKE THEM, HE IS NOT A FIGURE IN THE LANDSCAPE --
HE IS A SHAPER OF THE LANDSCAPE.
-- JACOB BRONOWSKI
This summer one third of the nation will be ill-housed
ill-nourished and ill-clad. Only they call it a vacation.
-- Jonas Salk
WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, LOOK AT THE SCHRODINGER EQUATION.
-- RUSSELL T. PACK, APRIL 1978
REALITY IS FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T FACE SCIENCE FICTION.
Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
-- Richard Ben Sapir
IT IS THE GODS' CUSTOM TO BRING LOW ALL THINGS OF SURPASSING GREATNESS.
-- HERODOTUS
IT IS THE LOFTY PINE THAT BY THE STORM IS OFTENER TOSSED;
TOWERS FALL WITH HEAVIER CRASH WHICH HIGHER SOAR.
-- HORACE
THE BIGGER THEY COME, THE HARDER THEY FALL.
-- BOB FITZSIMONS HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION, 1897-1899
WHEN HAVING A MEETING OF THE MINDS,
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE EQUIPMENT FOR IT.
ADAM SMITH SAID, "THE REAL PRICE OF ANYTHING IS THE TOIL AND TROUBLE
OF ACQUIRING IT." BUT IN ALL UNDERTAKINGS WITH NATURE WE SHOULD FIRST
READ CAREFULLY THE SMALL PRINT IN THE CONTRACT. THIS MIGHT DISCLOSE
THAT THE REAL PRICE IS TO BE PAID BY THOSE WHO INHERIT THE DEPLETION
AND DESPOILATION THAT FOLLOWS.
-- E. R. HARRISON IN "COSMOLOGY" (1980)
IN SO FAR AS QUANTUM MECHANICS IS CORRECT, CHEMICAL
QUESTIONS ARE PROBLEMS IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS.
-- EYRING, WALTER, & KIMBALL, 1944
WE TEND TO MEET ANY NEW SITUATION BY REORGANIZING. IT CAN BE A
WONDERFUL METHOD FOR CREATING THE ILLUSION OF PROGRESS WHILE PRODUCING
CONFUSION, INEFFICIENCY, AND DEMORALIZATION.
-- PETRONIUS ARBITER, 210 B.C.
FLOATING POINT NUMBERS ARE LIKE SANDPILES:
EVERY TIME THAT YOU MOVE ONE, YOU LOSE A LITTLE SAND
AND YOU PICK UP A LITTLE DIRT.
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
-- Larry Niven
ABALONE: AN EXPRESSION OF DISBELIEF.
Not by the face shall a man be known, but by the mask.
-- Karen Blixen
ALL MEN WHO EXPLORE
DEPLORE
THAT FRUSTRATING HURDLE
THE GIRDLE.
-- COLIN FLETCHER
MYSTERY IS THE WISDOM OF BLOCKHEADS... HORACE WALPOLE
I DON'T EXACTLY UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING,
BUT YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
M.S.GORDON, IN A NDSU FACULTY MEETING
I LOVE MANKIND - IT'S PEOPLE I CAN'T STAND.
-- LINUS OF PEANUTS
ALL OUR THINKING ABOUT NATURE MUST NECESSARILY MOVE IN CIRCLES OR SPIRALS;
FOR WE CAN ONLY UNDERSTAND NATURE IF WE THINK ABOUT HER, AND WE CAN ONLY
THINK BECAUSE OUR BRAIN IS BUILT IN ACCORDANCE WITH NATURE'S LAWS.
-- TIMOTHY FERRIS, "GALAXIES"
THERE'S SMALL CHOICE IN A BOWL OF ROTTEN APPLES.
SHAKESPEARE
COLLEGE PROFESSOR: SOMEONE WHO TALKS IN OTHER PEOPLE'S SLEEP.
IN NATURE THERE ARE NEITHER REWARDS OR
PUNISHMENTS -- THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES.
-- ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
I LOVE THOSE WHO LONG FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE.
-- GOETHE
THE DOUGHNUT CREED
AS YOU RAMBLE ON THROUGH LIFE, BROTHER
WHATEVER BE YOUR GOAL
KEEP YOUR EYE UPON THE DOUGHNUT
AND NOT UPON THE HOLE.
AS FAR AS THE LAWS OF MATHEMATICS REFER TO REALITY,
THEY ARE NOT CERTAIN; AND AS FAR AS THEY ARE CERTAIN,
THEY DO NOT REFER TO REALITY.
-- ALBERT EINSTEIN
0EVERYBODY IS IGNORANT, ONLY ON DIFFERENT SUBJECTS.
0 WILL ROGERS
HE WHO LOVES TO READ, AND KNOWS HOW TO REFLECT,
HAS LAID BY A PERPETUAL FEAST FOR HIS OLD AGE.
-- UNCLE ESEK, "SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY", SEPT. 1880
OLD HORSE! OLD HORSE! WHAT BROUGHT YOU HERE?
FROM SACARAP' TO PORTLAND PIER
I'VE CARTED STONE THIS MANY A YEAR;
TILL, KILLED BY BLOWS AND SORE ABUSE,
THEY SALTED ME DOWN FOR SAILORS' USE.
THE SAILORS THEY DO ME DESPISE;
THEY TURN ME OVER AND DAMN MY EYES;
CUT OFF MY MEAT, AND SCRAPE MY BONES,
AND PITCH ME OVER TO DAVY JONES.
SAILORS' COMPLAINT ABOUT THE BEEF
SERVED ON SHIPBOARD, CIRCA 1835.
GOD DOES NOT PLAY WITH DICE.
-- A. EINSTEIN
HE THAT RISETH LATE MUST TROT ALL DAY.
-- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
ON INDUCTION, OR "WHY DO YOU BELIEVE THE SUN WILL RISE TOMORROW?":
... THE FARMER WHO HAS FED THE CHICKEN EVERY DAY THROUGHOUT ITS
LIFE AT LAST WRINGS ITS NECK INSTEAD, SHOWING THAT MORE REFINED VIEWS
AS TO THE UNIFORMITY OF NATURE WOULD HAVE BEEN USEFUL TO THE CHICKEN.
-- BERTRAND RUSSELL
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO PULL THE WOOL OVER YOUR EYES
USING THE WRONG YARN.
ABOVE ALL I AM AN OPTIMIST FOR NUMBER THEORY,
AND I HOLD THE HOPE THAT WE MAY NOT BE FAR FROM
A TIME WHEN IRREFUTABLE ARITHMETIC WILL CELEBRATE
ITS TRIUMPHS IN PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY.
-- HERMANN MINKOWSKI, 1905
LIVE PURE, SPEAK TRUE, RIGHT WRONG, FOLLOW THE KING...
ELSE, WHEREFORE BORN......
IDYLLS OF THE KING, TENNYSON
THERE IS NO SCIENCE WITHOUT FANCY, NOR ART WITHOUT FACTS.
-- VLADIMIR NABAKOV
TERRY FORSTER, PORTLY ATLANTA BRAVES RELIEVER,
ANNOUNCING THAT HE WAS GOING TO A FAT FARM:
"A WAIST IS A TERRIBLE THING TO MIND."
IN THE LONG RUN, DIGGING FOR TRUTH HAS ALWAYS PROVED NOT ONLY
MORE INTERESTING BUT MORE PROFITABLE THAN DIGGING FOR GOLD.
-- GEORGE R. HARRISON
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.
-- Knute K. Rockne
THE IRISH PIG
'TWAS AN EVENING IN NOVEMBER,
AS I VERY WELL REMEMBER
I WAS STROLLING DOWN THE STREET IN DRUNKEN PRIDE,
BUT MY KNEES WERE ALL A'FLUTTER
SO I LANDED IN THE GUTTER,
AND A PIG CAME UP AND LAY DOWN BY MY SIDE.
YES, I LAY THERE IN THE GUTTER
THINKING THOUGHTS I COULD NOT UTTER
WHEN A COLLEEN PASSING BY DID SOFTLY SAY,
'YE CAN TELL A MAN THAT BOOZES
BY THE COMPANY THAT HE CHOOSES.' -
AT THAT, THE PIG GOT UP AND WALKED AWAY!
-- THE ECONOMIST, AUGUST 23, 1986
Money is a good servant but a bad master.
-- French Proverb
ALMOST ANYTHING IS EASIER TO GET INTO THAN OUT OF.
-- AGNES ALLEN'S LAW FROM
PAUL DICKSON'S "THE OFFICIAL RULES"
ONE THORN OF EXPERIENCE IS WORTH A WHOLE WILDERNESS OF
WARNING.... LOWELL - AMONG MY BOOKS
THE UNDERLYING PHYSICAL LAWS NECESSARY FOR THE
MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF A LARGE PART OF PHYSICS AND THE
WHOLE OF CHEMISTRY ARE THUS COMPLETELY KNOWN, AND THE
DIFFICULTY IS ONLY THAT THE EXACT APPLICATION OF THESE
LAWS LEADS TO EQUATIONS MUCH TOO COMPLICATED
TO BE SOLUBLE.
-- P. A. M. DIRAC, 1929
HE THAT IS UNAWARE OF HIS IGNORANCE WILL BE MISLED BY HIS KNOWLEDGE.
-- WHATLEY
I MET A TRAVELLER FROM AN ANTIQUE LAND
WHO SAID... TWO VAST AND TRUNKLESS LEGS OF STONE
STAND IN THE DESERT..... NEAR THEM, ON THE SAND,
HALF SUNK, A SHATTERED VISAGE LIES, WHOSE FROWN,
AND WRINKLED LIP, AND SNEER OF COLD COMMAND
TELL THAT ITS SCULPTOR WELL THOSE PASSIONS READ
WHICH YET SURVIVE, STAMPED ON THESE LIFELESS THINGS
THE HAND THAT MOCKED THEM, AND THE HEART THAT FED-
AND ON THE PEDESTAL THESE WORDS APPEAR
MY NAME IS OZYMANDIAS, KING OF KINGS--
LOOK ON MY WORKS YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR.
NOTHING BESIDE REMAINS, ROUND THE DECAY
OF THAT COLOSSAL WRECK, BOUNDLESS AND BARE
THE LONE AND LEVEL SANDS STRETCH FAR AWAY.
SHELLEY
PENOTUS DIED A HUNDRED YEARS OLD WANTING BUT TWO...
AND HE USED TO SAY BEFORE HE DIED, HAVING SPENT HIS
WHOLE LIFE IN VAINLY SEARCHING AFTER THE PHILOSOPHER'S
STONE, THAT IF HE HAD A MORTAL ENEMY HE DID NOT DARE
TO ENCOUNTER OPENLY, HE WOULD ADVISE HIM ABOVE ALL
THINGS TO GIVE HIMSELF UP TO THE STUDY AND PRACTICE
OF ALCHEMY. -- NICOLAS LEMERY, M.D.
"A COURSE OF CHYMISTRY", WALTER KETTILBY, LONDON, 1686
WOE UNTO THEM THAT CALL EVIL GOOD, AND GOOD EVIL
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn
how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
-- John Steinbeck
WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED
IS LIKE A HANDFUL OF EARTH;
WHAT WE HAVE YET TO LEARN
IS LIKE THE WHOLE WORLD.
-- AVVAYIAR
LENDING MONEY TO FRIENDS CAUSES THEM TO LOSE THEIR MEMORIES.
-- PETER'S THEORY OF RECIPROCAL INHIBITION OF FISCAL RECALL
Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.
-- Charles Schulz
CONFIDENCE: THAT QUIET ASSURED FEELING YOU HAVE
JUST BEFORE YOU FALL FLAT ON YOUR FACE.
ACHIEVEMENT-- THE MAN WHO ROWS THE BOAT GENERALLY
DOESN'T HAVE TIME TO ROCK IT.
-- FROM THE BACK OF A SUGAR PACKET
MEN HAVE BECOME THE TOOLS OF THEIR TOOLS... THOREAU
IF YOU BELIEVE CERTAIN WORDS, YOU BELIEVE THEIR HIDDEN ARGUMENTS.
WHEN YOU BELIEVE SOMETHING IS RIGHT OR WRONG, TRUE OR FALSE,
YOU BELIEVE THE ASSUMPTIONS IN THE WORDS WHICH EXPRESS THE ARGUMENTS.
SUCH ASSUMPTIONS ARE OFTEN FULL OF HOLES, BUT REMAIN MOST PRECIOUS
TO THE CONVINCED.
-- THE OPEN-ENDED PROOF FROM THE PANOPLIA PROPHETICA
CHILDREN OF DUNE BY FRANK HERBERT
IT IS THE BEHAVIOR AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELECTRONS
AROUND THE NUCLEUS THAT GIVES THE FUNDAMENTAL
CHARACTER OF AN ATOM: IT MUST BE THE SAME FOR MOLECULES.
-- C. A. COULSON, 1951
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
-- Anthony Brandt
IF YOU GIVE EVERYONE A PIECE OF YOUR MIND,
PRETTY SOON IT WILL BE ALL GONE.
There ain't no surer way to find out whether you
like people or hate them than to travel with them.
-- Mark Twain
IT'S WHAT YOU LEARN AFTER YOU KNOW IT ALL
THAT COUNTS.
TOWERING GENIUS DISDAINS A BEATEN PATH. IT SEEKS
REGIONS HITHERTO UNEXPLORED.
-- ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
-- Laurence Olivier
THE ATTENTION SPAN OF A COMPUTER IS AS LONG
AS ITS EXTENSION CORD.
A MATHEMATICIAN IS A MACHINE FOR TURNING COFFEE INTO THEOREMS.
-- QUOTED BY PAUL ERDOS
WE LOSE BECAUSE WE WIN
GAMBLERS,
RECOLLECTING WHICH,
TOSS THEIR DICE AGAIN....
EMILY DICKINSON BOLTS OF MELODY NO. 533
LET US PLACE AT THE END OF EVERY CHAPTER.....THE
TWO LETTERS USED BY THE ROMAN JUDGES WHEN THEY DID
NOT UNDERSTAND A PLEADING.
N. L. -NON LIQUET- IT IS NOT CLEAR.
-- VOLTAIRE
ART, GLORY, FREEDOM FAIL, BUT NATURE STILL IS FAIR.
-- BYRON
UNDER MOST GREENE GRASSE LY MOST GREATE SNAKES.
-- PROVERBS AND REASONS OF THE YEAR 1585
AS REPRINTED IN PAISLEY MAGAZINE 1828.
... FOR AFTERWARDS A MAN FINDS PLEASURE IN HIS PAINS,
WHEN HE HAS SUFFERED LONG AND WANDERED FAR.
-- HOMER
MEMORIES ARE LIKE AN ENGLISH GRAMMER LESSON -
PRESENT TENSE, AND PAST PERFECT.
YOU WILL NEVER "FIND" TIME FOR ANYTHING.
IF YOU WANT TIME, YOU MUST MAKE IT.
-- CHARLES BIXTON
REVOLUTIONS HAVE NEVER LIGHTENED THE BURDEN OF TYRANNY:
THEY HAVE MERELY SHIFTED IT TO OTHER SHOULDERS.
-- G. B. SHAW (1903)
WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, TRY THE BOSS'S SUGGESTION.
THIS CURIOUS WORLD WHICH WE INHABIT IS MORE WONDERFUL THAN IT IS
CONVENIENT;
MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN IT IS USEFUL;
IT IS MORE TO BE ADMIRED THAN IT IS TO BE USED.
-- THOREAU
HONESTY IN A LAWYER IS LIKE A HEN'S HIND LEGS.
-- MAGNUS OLESON, LAKE WOBEGON PATRIARCH, C.1875
A HARD FALL SHOULD MEAN A HIGH BOUNCE
IF ONE IS MADE OF THE RIGHT MATERIAL.
-- THE CHEMIST ANALYST, MARCH 1950
CHINESE FORTUNE COOKIE OF JAN 1 1967 SAY....
ALL THINGS ARE DIFFICULT BEFORE THEY ARE EASY.
WE LEARN SO LITTLE AND FORGET SO MUCH.
YOU WILL OVERCOME OBSTACLES TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS.
AH SO.
THOSE WHO TRY TO PASS CHEMISTRY OFF AS A NEW SCIENCE
SHOW HOW LITTLE KNOWLEDGE THEY HAVE OF THE CHARACTER
AND LITERATURE OF THE ANCIENTS.
-- NICOLAS LEFEVRE
"COURS DE CHYMIE" J.-N.LELOUP, PARIS, 1751
FROM WHENCE IT HAPPENS, THAT THEY WHICH TRUST TO BOOKS, DO AS THEY THAT
CAST
UP MANY LITTLE SUMMS INTO GREATER,
WITHOUT CONSIDERING WETHER THOSE LITTLE SUMMES WERE RIGHTLY CAST UP OR
NOT...
AND AT LAST FINDING THE ERROUR VISIBLE, AND NOT MISTRUSTING THEIR FIRST
GROUNDS,
KNOW NOT WHICH WAY TO CLEERE THEMSELVES...
BUT SPEND TIME IN FLUTTERING OVER THEIR BOOKES....
AS BIRDS THAT ENTERING BY THE CHIMNEY, AND FINDING THEMSELVES INCLOSED IN A
CHAMBER,
FLUTTER AT THE FALSE LIGHT OF A GLASSE WINDOW,
FOR WANT OF WIT TO CONSIDER WHICH WAY THEY CAME IN....
LEVIATHAN
SLITHERY-DITHERY
FRIEDRICH A. KEKULE
DREAMT ON A BUS OF THINGS
FREUD WOULD THINK KEEN.
MOST OF THE TIME THEY WERE
HERPETOLOGICAL
BITING THEIR TAILS IN THE
SHAPE OF BENZENE.
VIRTUE IS LEARNED AT YOUR MOTHER'S KNEE,
VICES ARE PICKED UP AT SOME OTHER JOINT.
GROWING OLD ISN'T SO BAD -- WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE ALTERNATIVE.
-- MAURICE CHEVALIER
... IT CAN BE VERY DIFFICULT, IN THESE COMPLEX TIMES,
TO UNDERSTAND JUST HOW SCIENTISTS DO WHAT THEY DO.
DON MOSER IN THE FEBRUARY 1979 SMITHSONIAN
You can't act like a skunk without someone's getting wind of it.
-- Lorene Workman
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS IN LIFE IS TO EAT WHAT YOU LIKE, AND LET THE FOOD
FIGHT IT OUT INSIDE YOU. -- FROM A FORTUNE COOKIE
DEPRESSION IS WAITING FOR YOUR SHIP TO COME IN,
AND FINDING OUT IT'S THE TITANIC.
IT IS NOT EASY TO DESCRIBE
THE SEA WITH THE MOUTH
-- KOKYU
KEEP CLOSE TO NATURES HEART, YOURSELF;
AND BREAK CLEAR AWAY, ONCE IN A WHILE, AND
CLIMB A MOUNTAIN OR SPEND A WEEK IN THE
WOODS. WASH YOUR SPIRIT CLEAN...
-- JOHN MUIR
What some people mistake for the high cost
of living is really the cost of living high.
-- Doug Larson
MOM AND DAD WENT TO ALPHA CENTAURI AND ALL
I GOT WAS THIS DUMB T-SHIRT.
A SOLDIER'S LIFE IS A LIFE OF HONOR, BUT A DOG WOULD NOT LEAD IT.
-- PRINCE RUPERT, FOUNDER OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY
SCIENCE AT ITS BEST PROVIDES US WITH BETTER QUESTIONS,
NOT ABSOLUTE ANSWERS
-- NORMAN COUSINS, 1976
LOVE IS BLIND, THAT'S WHY ALL THE WORLD LOVES A LOUVER.
SOME THINGS ARE EASY, THEY ARE ONLY HARD TO DO.
-- A. EINSTEIN TO J. O. HIRSCHFELDER
THE ONLY TROUBLE WITH A SURE THING IS THE UNCERTAINTY.
-- FROM A TEABAG (BELONGING TO W.H.?)
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
-- John Leonard
THE WISE MAN HAS THE POWER TO REASON AWAY
WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES.
- DOOBIE BROTHERS
THE WORLD IS MADE UP OF THE WILLS, THE WON'TS, AND THE CANT'S:
THE WILLS DO EVERYTHING,
THE WON'TS DO NOTHING,
THE CAN'TS CAN'T DO ANYTHING.
-- FROM WALT DISNEY'S "BLACK HOLE"
THEORY: SUPPOSITION WHICH HAS SCIENTIFIC BASIS,
BUT NOT EXPERIMENTALLY PROVEN.
FACT: A THEORY WHICH HAS BEEN PROVEN BY ENOUGH
MONEY TO PAY FOR THE EXPERIMENTS.
-- THE WIZARD OF ID
IT IS WELL TO REMEMBER THAT MAN IS A PART OF NATURE AND THAT HIS WORKS,
WHATEVER THEY MAY BE, ARE NO MORE "UNNATURAL" THAN
THE FLIGHT OF AN EAGLE OR THE PASSAGE OF A TORNADO.
-- CHARLES MCCARRY IN "THE GREAT
SOUTHWEST"
Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
-- Henry Clay
GETTING A SIMPLE ANSWER FROM A PROFESSOR IS LIKE
GETTING A THIMBLE OF WATER FROM A FIRE HYDRANT.
-- PROF. LEN SHAPIRO, NDSU
SCIENCE IS A VERY HUMAN FORM OF KNOWLEDGE.
WE ARE ALWAYS AT THE BRINK OF THE KNOWN,
WE ALWAYS FEEL FORWARD FOR WHAT IS HOPED.
EVERY JUDGEMENT IN SCIENCE STANDS ON THE EDGE OF ERROR, AND IS PERSONAL.
SCIENCE IS A TRIBUTE TO WHAT WE CAN KNOW ALTHOUGH WE ARE FALLIBLE.
-- J. BRONOWSKI
WE HAVE LEFT UNDONE THOSE THINGS WHICH WE OUGHT TO HAVE DONE,
AND WE HAVE DONE THOSE THINGS WHICH WE OUGHT NOT TO HAVE DONE.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
-- Anne McCaffrey
"MATHEMATICS IS THE ART OF GIVING THE SAME NAME
TO DIFFERENT THINGS."
- H. POINCARE
TO SUSPECT YOUR OWN MORTALITY IS TO KNOW THE BEGINNING OF TERROR.
TO LEARN IRREFUTABLY THAT YOU ARE MORTAL IS TO KNOW THE END
OF TERROR.
-- JESSICA
CHILDREN OF DUNE
BY FRANK HERBERT
ARSENIC
FOR SMELTER FUMES HAVE I BEEN NAMED,
I AM AN EVIL POISONOUS SMOKE...
BUT WHEN FROM POISON I AM FREED,
THROUGH ART AND SLEIGHT OF HAND,
THEN CAN I CURE BOTH MAN AND BEAST,
FROM DIRE DISEASE OFTTIMES DIRECT THEM;
BUT PREPARE ME CORRECTLY, AND TAKE GREAT CARE
THAT YOU FAITHFULLY KEEP WATCHFUL GUARD OVER ME;
FOR ELSE I AM POISON, AND POISON REMAIN,
THAT PIERCES THE HEART OF MANY A ONE.
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PROBABLY MYTHICAL 15TH
CENTURY MONK, BASILIUS VALENTINUS
CHARLIE BROWN -- WHICH DO YOU THINK LASTS LONGER IN LIFE, THE GOOD THINGS
OR THE BAD THINGS?
LINUS -- GOOD THINGS LAST EIGHT SECONDS ..
BAD THINGS LAST THREE WEEKS
CHARLIE BROWN -- WHAT ABOUT IN BETWEEN?
SNOOPY -- IN BETWEEN YOU SHOULD TAKE A NAP ...
THE POLHOLDE ROLLS WITHOUT SLIPPING ON THE HERPOLHOLDE LYING IN
THE INVARIABLE PLANE.
H.GOLDSTEIN, "CLASSICAL MECHANICS", PG 161
WAR ES EIN GOTT DER DIESE ZEICHEN SCHRIEB?
- LUDWIG BOLTZMANN, QUOTING GOETHE, ABOUT MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS.
CHRISTMAS IS ON TOP OF A STEEP HILL.
THE CLOSER YOU GET, THE STEEPER THE HILL IS.
-- LINUS, OF PEANUTS
NOT WHAT WE DID SHALL BE THE TEST
WHEN ACT AND WILL ARE DONE,
BUT WHAT OUR LORD INFERS WE WOULD-
HAD WE DIVINER BEEN.
EMILY DICKINSON POEMS NO. CLXXV
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of
having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
-- Jim Fiebig
NEVER LOSE YOUR IGNORANCE, IT CAN'T BE REPLACED.
-- ANDY CAPP
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
BRING ME INTO THE COMPANY OF THOSE WHO SEEK TRUTH,
AND DELIVER ME FROM THOSE WHO HAVE FOUND IT.
MATERIAL COPIED FROM ONE SCHOLARLY BOOK WITHOUT CREDIT COMPRISES
PLAGIARISM.
MATERIAL COPIED FROM TWO SCHOLARLY BOOKS COMPRISES AN ESSAY.
MATERIAL COPIED FROM THREE SCHOLARLY BOOKS COMPRISES A DISSERTATION.
MATERIAL COPIED FROM FOUR SCHOLARLY BOOKS COMPRISES A FIFTH SCHOLARLY BOOK.
-- C&EN, 25 FEB 1980
"THE ACADEMIC HIERARCHY"
THE PRESIDENT:
LEAPS TALL BUILDINGS IN A SINGLE BOUND,
IS MORE POWERFUL THAN A LOCOMOTIVE,
IS FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET,
WALKS ON WATER,
GIVES POLICY TO GOD.
THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS:
LEAPS SHORT BUILDINGS IN A SINGLE BOUND,
IS MORE POWERFUL THAN A SWITCH ENGINE,
IS JUST AS FAST AS A SPEEDING BULLET,
WALKS ON WATER IF SEA IS CALM,
TALKS WITH GOD.
PROFESSOR:
LEAPS SHORT BUILDINGS WITH A RUNNING START AND FAVORABLE WINDS,
IS ALMOST AS POWERFUL AS A SWITCH ENGINE,
CAN FIRE A SPEEDING BULLET,
WALKS ON WATER IN AN INDOOR SWIMMING POOL,
TALKS WITH GOD IF SPECIAL REQUEST IS APPROVED.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR:
BARELY CLEARS A QUONSET HUT,
LOSES TUG OF WAR WITH LOCOMOTIVE,
MISFIRES FREQUENTLY,
SWIMS WELL,
IS OCCASIONALLY ADDRESSED BY GOD.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR:
MAKES HIGH MARKS ON WALLS WHEN TRYING TO LEAP TALL BUILDINGS,
IS RUN OVER BY LOCOMOTIVES,
CAN SOMETIMES HANDLE A GUN WITHOUT INFLICTING SELF INJURY,
DOG PADDLES,
TALKS TO ANIMALS.
GRADUATE STUDENT:
RUNS INTO BUILDINGS,
RECOGNIZES LOCOMOTIVES TWO OUT OF THREE TIMES,
IS NOT ISSUED AMMUNITION,
CAN STAY AFLOAT WITH A LIFE JACKET,
TALKS TO WALLS.
UNDERGRADUATE AND WORK STUDY STUDENT:
FALLS OVER DOORSTEP WHEN TRYING TO ENTER BUILDINGS,
SAYS, "LOOK AT THE CHOO-CHOO,"
WETS HIMSELF WITH A WATER PISTOL,
PLAYS IN MUD PUDDLES,
MUMBLES TO HIMSELF.
DEPARTMENT SECRETARY:
LIFTS TALL BUILDINGS AND WALKS UNDER THEM,
KICKS LOCOMOTIVES OFF THE TRACKS,
CATCHES SPEEDING BULLETS IN HER TEETH AND EATS THEM,
FREEZES WATER WITH A SINGLE GLANCE,
IS GOD.
A ROPE OVER THE TOP OF A FENCE HAS THE SAME LENGTH ON EACH SIDE.
WEIGHS 1/3 POUND PER FOOT. ON ONE END HANGS A MONKEY HOLDING A
BANANA, AND ON THE OTHER END A WEIGHT EQUAL TO THE WEIGHT
OF THE MONKEY. THE BANANA WEIGHS TWO OUNCES PER INCH.
THE ROPE IS AS LONG AS THE AGE OF THE MONKEY,
AND THE WEIGHT OF THE MONKEY (IN OUNCES) IS AS MUCH
AS THE AGE OF THE MONKEY'S MOTHER. THE COMBINED AGES OF MONKEY
AND MOTHER ARE THIRTY YEARS. HALF THE WEIGHT OF THE MONKEY,
PLUS THE WEIGHT OF THE BANANA, IS ONE FOURTH AS MUCH AS THE WEIGHT
OF THE WEIGHT AND THE ROPE.
THE MONKEY'S MOTHER IS HALF AS OLD AS THE MONKEY WILL BE
WHEN IT IS 3 TIMES AS OLD AS ITS MOTHER WAS WHEN
SHE WAS HALF AS OLD AS THE MONKEY WILL BE WHEN IT IS
AS OLD AS ITS MOTHER WILL BE WHEN SHE IS 4 TIMES AS
OLD AS THE MONKEY WAS WHEN IT WAS TWICE AS OLD AS
ITS MOTHER WAS WHEN SHE WAS ONE THIRD AS OLD AS THE
MONKEY WAS WHEN IT WAS AS OLD AS ITS MOTHER WAS WHEN
SHE WAS 3 TIMES AS OLD AS THE MONKEY WAS WHEN IT WAS AS OLD AS ITS
MOTHER WAS WHEN SHE WAS 3 TIMES AS OLD AS THE MONKEY
WAS WHEN IT WAS ONE FOURTH WAS OLD AS IT IS NOW.
HOW LONG IS THE BANANA?
ONLY A FOOL KNOWS EVERYTHING.
-- THE CHEMIST ANALYST, SEPTEMBER 1946
I WOULD TAKE COUNSEL OF MYSELF.
I WOULD STOP AND LOOK WITHIN
AND LOOKING WITHIN, LOOK BACK, ALSO
THAT I MAY LOOK AHEAD WITH CLEARER UNDERSTANDING
OF THE WAY I HAVE BEEN MOVING, AND IN WHAT DIRECTION.
I NEED TO KNOW IF I AM GOING FORWARD OR RETREATING,
WHETHER I HAVE BEEN WASTING, OR ENJOYING
THE PRECIOUS MOMENTS OF LIFE. THERE HAVE BEEN FRICTIONS,
ANNOYANCES AND SOMETIMES WRATH,
BUT WERE THEY BECAUSE I WAS RIGHT AND OTHERS WRONG.....
HAVE I HAD MY THOUGHTS TOO SHARPLY FOCUSED
ON THAT WHICH PLEASED ME, SERVED MY SELF-ESTEEM,
UNDERGIRDED MY SECURITY,
OF WHICH I DID NOT INQUIRE WHETHER IT SERVED OR HAMPERED OTHERS.....
HAVE I BEEN TRYING TO STOP THE CLOCK
TO HOLD THE WORLD
IN PERPETUATION OF WHAT WAS AN IS ALREADY SLIPPING AWAY.....
HAVE I BEEN CRITICAL OF OTHERS FOR WHAT REALLY NEEDED CHANGING IN ME...
LET ME INDEED TAKE COUNSEL OF MYSELF
AND SET MY DIRECTIONS STRAIGHT.
R.T. WESTON AS ADAPTED BY D. OSBORN 1967
You never know when you're making a memory.
-- Rickie Lee Jones
IT IS A QUALITY OF REVOLUTIONS NOT TO GO BY OLD LINES OR OLD LAWS,
BUT TO BREAK UP BOTH, AND MAKE NEW ONES.
-- A. LINCOLN (1848)
HE THAT FOLLOWS NATURE IS NEVER LOST.
-- BACON
EVERY WORD THAT YOU WRITE IS A BLOW THAT SMITES THE DEVIL.
-- ST. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
TO BEHOLD HARMS OF OUR OWN HANDS DOING,
WHERE NONE BESIDE US WROUGHT,
CAUSES SHARP RUING...
SOPHOCLES
WHEN YOU REACH FOR THE STARS, YOU MAY NOT QUITE GET ONE,
BUT YOU WON'T COME UP WITH A HANDFUL OF MUD, EITHER.
-- LEO BURNETT (AD AGENCY HEAD)
JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU'VE GOT THE WORLD ON A STRING,
YOU FIND OUT IT'S YOUR LEASH.
"A LITTLE BIT GOES A LONG WAY"
R.S. MULLIKEN AS QUOTED BY K. RUEDENBERG
WE MIGHT AS WELL ATTEMPT TO INTRODUCE A NEW PLANET
INTO THE SOLAR SYSTEM, OR TO ANNIHILATE ONE ALREADYIN EXISTENCE,
AS TO CREATE OR DESTROY A PARTICLE OF HYDROGEN.
ALL THE CHANGES WE CAN PRODUCE CONSIST IN SEPARATING PARTICLES
THAT ARE IN A STATE OF ... COMBINATION, AND JOINING
THOSE THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY AT A DISTANCE.
-- JOHN DALTON, 1810
It is also a good rule not to put too much confidence in
experimental results until they have been confirmed by
Theory.
-- Sir Arthur Eddington
HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY
NIC'LAUS COPERNICUS
LOOKED AT THE UNIVERSE,
SPOKE TO THE THRONG;
GIVE UP YOUR PTOLOMY,
RISE UP AND FOLLOW ME,
HELIOCENTRICALLY
PTOLEMY'S WRONG.
-- NANCY L. STARK
THE ... SCIENTISTS WERE WRONG ... THE MOST PERSISTENT PRINCIPLES
OF THE UNIVERSE WERE ACCIDENT AND ERROR.
-- FRANK HERBERT IN DUNE
SCIENCE IS LONG AND LIFE IS SHORT.
DON MOSER IN THE FEBRUARY 1979 SMITHSONIAN
A FOOL CAN ASK MORE QUESTIONS THAN
A WISE MAN CAN ANSWER.
WHEN IT COMES TO CASH FLOW, IT SEEMS LIKE THE TIDE IS ALWAYS GOING OUT.
LORD, MAN... WERE YE BUT WHYLES WHERE I AM,
THE GENTILES YE WAD NE'ER ENVY 'EM.
IT'S TRUE, THEY NEEDNA STARVE OR SWEAT,
THRO' WINTER'S CAULD OR SIMMER'S HEAT...
THEY'VE NAE SAIR WARK TO CRAZE THEIR BANES,
AND FILL AULD AGE WITH GRIPS AN' GRANES...
BUT HUMAN BODIES ARE SIC FOOLS
FOR A' THEIR COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS,
THAT WHEN NAE REAL ILLS PERPLEX THEM,
THEY MAK ENOW THEMSELVES TO VEX THEM,
AN' AYE THE LESS THEY HAE TO STURT THEM,
IN LIKE PROPORTION LESS WILL HURT THEM....
(ROBERT BURNS 'THE TWA DOGS')
ASKING FOR EFFICIENCY AND ADAPTABILITY IN THE SAME PROGRAM IS LIKE
ASKING FOR A BEAUTIFUL AND MODEST WIFE ...
WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE TO SETTLE FOR ONE OR THE OTHER.
-- THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
GERALD M. WEINBERG
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
-- Mark Twain
EXPERIMENTALISTS THINK SILICON IS REALLY FUN TO USE
ITS PLACE IN NOVEL COMPOUNDS IS CERTAIN TO AMUSE
THEY SIT ALL DAY IN LABORATORIES MAKING ALL THIS SLUDGE
"LOADED WITH THE SILICON THEY SAY", TO ME IT LOOKS LIKE FUDGE.
FOR HAPPY THOUGH THEY BE WITH CRUD, I'D LIKE TO KNOW A LITTLE
ABOUT THE PI BONDS ON THE EDGE AND SIGMAS IN THE MIDDLE.
SO LETS DERIVE A WAVEFUNCTION.....6-31G*
USE AN OPTIMAL GEOMETRY AND SEE WHERE ELECTRONS ARE.
BUT WHAT OF CORRELATION? ASKS THE WIRY LITTLE SKEPTIC.
WE'LL THROW IN PERTURBATION AS AN ELECTRON ANTISEPTIC.
AND WHEN THE PROGRAM GIVES US ANSWERS IN THEM WE CAN TRUST
SINCE NOBODY CAN MAKE THE STUFF, WE HAVE NO CHOICE, WE MUST.
SO THEORY GUYS HAVE GOT IT MADE, IN ROOMS FREE OF POLLUTION.
INSTEAD OF PROBLEMS WITH THE REFLUX, THEY HAVE ONLY SOLUTIONS.
AND WHEN THE FEDS ANNOUNCE THE LIST OF CARCINOGENIC TERRORS,
THE THEORISTS SIT SAFELY AT THEIR TERMINALS FIXING ERRORS.
IN OTHER WORDS, EXPERIMENTALISTS WILL LIKELY DIE OF CANCER
FROM WORKING HARD YET FRUITLESSLY...TILL THEORY GIVES THE ANSWER.
-- THOMAS A. HOLME, 1983
OF ALL THE WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE, THE GREATEST IS MAN.
-- ARISTOTLE
THE PROMISED LAND ALWAYS LIES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF A WILDERNESS.
-- HAVELOCK ELLIS
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most do.
-- Dale Carnegie
IF YOU'RE NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION,
THEN YOU'RE PART OF THE PRECIPITATE.
ORIGINALITY CONSISTS NOT IN SAYING WHAT NO ONE HAS EVER SAID BEFORE,
BUT IN SAYING WHAT YOU THINK YOUR SELF.
-- JAMES F. STEPHEN
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
SI MONUMENTUM REQUIRIS, CIRCUMSPICE
-- FROM SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN'S TOMBSTONE
WE DON'T KNOW ONE MILLIONTH OF ONE PERCENT ABOUT
ANYTHING.
T. A. EDISON.
WE STILL HAVE JUDGEMENT HERE,
THAT WE TEACH BUT BLOODY INSTRUCTIONS,
WHICH, BEING TAUGHT,
RETURN TO PLAGUE THE INVENTOR.
MACBETH ACT I, SCENE VII
TO DRY ONE'S EYES AND LAUGH AT A FALL,
AND BAFFLED, GET UP AND BEGIN AGAIN.
R. BROWNING
PATIENCE IS THE ABILITY TO IDLE YOUR MOTOR WHEN
YOU FEEL LIKE STRIPPING YOUR GEARS.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people
are right more than half of the time.
-- E. B. White
GOD GAVE US TWO ENDS... ONE TO SIT ON...
AND THE OTHER TO THINK WITH...
YOUR SUCCESS DEPENDS UPON WHICH END YOU
USE THE MOST...
IT'S A CASE OF HEADS YOU WIN TAILS YOU LOSE.
SOURCE UNKNOWN(IT'S JUST AS WELL.)
ABSOLUTISM, OBSOLETISM -- IF IT WORKS, IT'S OUT OF DATE
-- STAFFORD BEER
NATURE REVEALS EVERY SECRET ONCE.
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON
IF OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO TALK, CONVERSATION IS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE.
-- WHISTLER'S PRINCIPLE
OUR LITTLE SYSTEMS HAVE THEIR DAY,
THEY HAVE THEIR DAY AND CEASE TO BE.
THEY ARE BUT BROKEN LIGHTS OF THEE,
AND THOU, OH LORD, ART MORE THAN THEY.
-------------------
LET KNOWLEDGE GROW FROM MORE TO MORE,
BUT MORE OF REVERENCE IN US DWELL.
THAT MIND AND SOUL, ACCORDING WELL,
MAY MAKE ONE MUSIC AS BEFORE.....
-------------------
LORD TENNYSON
WISDOM IS KNOWING WHAT TO DO,
SKILL IS KNOWING HOW TO DO IT,
AND VIRTUE IS NOT DOING IT.
MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB
HIS FEET WERE BLACK AS SOOT,
AND EVERYWHERE THAT MARY WENT
HIS SOOTY FOOT HE PUT.
-- NONAME
DON'T WORRY CHARLIE BROWN...WE LEARN MORE FROM LOSING
THAN WE DO FROM WINNING.
THEN THAT MAKES ME THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE WORLD...
CHARLES SCHULZ 'PEANUTS'
THOSE WHO ASPIRE NOT TO GUESS AND DIVINE,
BUT TO DISCOVER AND KNOW, WHO PROPOSE NOT TO DEVISE
MIMIC AND FABULOUS WORLDS OF THEIR OWN, BUT TO
EXAMINE AND DISSECT THE NATURE OF THIS VERY WORLD
ITSELF, MUST GO TO THE FACTS THEMSELVES FOR EVERYTHING.
-- FRANCIS BACON, 1620
MOST BUREAUCRACIES FUNCTION LIKE A SEPTIC TANK.
THE LARGE CHUNKS RISE TO THE TOP.
AND HERE I AM, FOR ALL MY LORE,
THE WRETCHED FOOL I WAS BEFORE.
CALLED MASTER OF ARTS, AND DOCTOR TO BOOT,
FOR TEN YEARS ALMOST I CONFUTE
AND UP AND DOWN, WHEREVER IT GOES
I DRAG MY STUDENTS BY THE NOSE --
AND SEE THAT FOR ALL OUR SCIENCE AND ART
WE CAN KNOW NOTHING. IT BURNS MY HEART.
-- FAUST
EDUCATION IS NOT TRAINING BUT RATHER THE PROCESS THAT EQUIPS YOU TO
ENTERTAIN YOURSELF, A FRIEND, OR AN IDEA. -- WALLACE STERLING
THE WHOLE OF SCIENCE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A REFINEMENT OF EVEYDAY THINKING.
-- A. EINSTEIN
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous;
you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher
... I FELL INTO A REVERIE ... THE ATOMS WERE GAMBOLING BEFORE MY EYES
... I SAW HOW TWO SMALL ONES UNITED TO FORM A PAIR;
HOW THE LARGER ONES SEIZED TWO OF THE SMALLER ONES;
HOW STILL LARGER ONES KEPT HOLD OF THREE OR FOUR
SMALLER ONES ... I SAW HOW THE LARGER ONES FORMED A CHAIN ...
THIS WAS THE ORIGIN OF THE STRUCTURE THEORY.
-- C.F.KEKULE VON STRADONITZ
LAWS OF PROGRAMMING DEFINITION: A WORKING PROGRAM
IS ONE THAT HAS
ONLY UNOBSERVED
BUGS.
KNOWLEDGE IS OF TWO KINDS: WE KNOW A SUBJECT OURSELVES OR WE KNOW
WHERE WE CAN FIND INFORMATION UPON IT.
-- SAMUEL JOHNSON
REPARTEE - WHAT YOU THINK OF AFTER YOU BECOME A DEPARTEE.
K N O W I N G IS A BARRIER WHICH PREVENTS LEARNING
-- TEACHING OF THE BENE GESSERIT
HE WHO LAUGHS LAST PROBABLY DIDN'T GET THE JOKE.
A great many people think they are thinking when they
are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James
ONLY THE DAY DAWNS TO WHICH YOU ARE AWAKE.
-- THOREAU
NOTHING MAKES A PERSON MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN THE LAST MINUTE.
DO YOU KNOW THAT THE LETTERS IN "EPISCOPAL", WHEN
REARRANGED, SPELL "PEPSI COLA"?
THE WORLD IS NOT A HAMBURGER - YOU CAN'T HAVE IT YOUR WAY.
TO DETECT ERRORS, THE PROGRAMMER MUST HAVE A CONNIVING MIND,
ONE THAT DELIGHTS IN UNCOVERING FLAWS WHERE BEAUTY AND
PERFECTION WERE ONCE THOUGHT TO LIE.
-- THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
GERALD M. WEINBERG
THERE IS NO SUBJECT, HOWEVER COMPLEX,
WHICH, IF STUDIED WITH PATIENCE AND INTELLIGIENCE
WILL NOT BECOME
MORE COMPLEX
QUOTED BY D. GORDON ROHMAN
The number of Unix installations has grown to 10,
with more expected.
-- The Unix Programmer's Manual,
2nd Edition, June, 1972.
THE FIRST MORNING OF CREATION WROTE WHAT THE LAST DAWN OF
RECKONING SHALL READ. -- OMAR KHAYYAM
STEINBACH'S GUIDELINES FOR SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING:
NEVER TEST FOR AN ERROR CONDITION YOU DON'T KNOW HOW
TO HANDLE.
THE ONLY EXISTING THINGS ARE ATOMS AND EMPTY SPACE;
ALL ELSE IS MERE OPINION. -- DEMOCRITUS OF ABDERA D. 370 B.C.
EXPERIMENTS ARE THE ONLY MEANS OF KNOWLEDGE AT OUR DISPOSAL
THE REST IS POETRY, IMAGINATION. -- MAX PLANCK
LIFE IS SO UNCERTAIN - EAT DESSERT FIRST.
SIC AS THE CAWSE OF EWERY THING IS, SIC WILBE THE EFFECT.
-- PROVERBS AND REASONS OF THE YEAR 1585
AS REPRINTED IN PAISLEY MAGAZINE 1828.
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals;
I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
-- A. Whitney Brown
SCHOPENHAUER'S LAW OF ENTROPY
IF YOU PUT A SPOONFUL OF WINE IN A BARREL FULL
OF SEWAGE, YOU GET SEWAGE.
IF YOU PUT A SPOONFUL OF SEWAGE IN A BARREL FULL
OF WINE, YOU GET SEWAGE.
HOW IS IT THAT THE SKY FEEDS THE STARS?
-- LUCRETIUS
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
-- Al Bernstein
THE MORE POWERFUL THE METHOD, THE MORE CATASTROPHIC THE ERRORS.
-- M.D. KAMEN
ANYONE WHO IS NOT SHOCKED BY QUANTUM THEORY HAS
NOT UNDERSTOOD IT. -- NIELS BOHR(1885-1962)
Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.
-- Joan Ganz Cooney
GARLIC THEN HAVE POWER TO SAVE FROM DEATH
BEAR WITH IT THOUGH IT MAKETH UNSAVORY BREATH,
AND SCORN NOT GARLIC LIKE SOME THAT THINK
IT ONLY MAKETH MEN WINK AND DRINK AND STINK.
-- SIR JOHN HARRINGTON,
"THE ENGLISHMAN'S DOCTOR", 1609
PICNIC: A SNACK IN THE GRASS.
BLACK HOLES SUCK.
"TIGER, TIGER BURNING BRIGHT
IN THE FOREST OF THE NIGHT.
WHAT IMMORTAL HAND OR EYE
CAN FRAME THY FEARFUL SYMMETRYE?"
- WILLIAM BLAKE
ADVERTISING-- HE WHO HAS SOMETHING TO SELL AND GOES AND WHISPERS
IN A WELL, IS NOT SO APT TO GET THE DOLLARS AS HE
WHO CLIMBS A TREE AND HOLLERS.
-- FROM THE BACK OF A SUGAR PACKET
FORGIVE MY NONSENSE AS I ALSO FORGIVE THOSE WHO THINK THEY TALK SENSE
-- ROBERT FROST
THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH.
(THE REST OF US WILL ESCAPE TO THE STARS)
...THOSE SCIENCES ARE VAIN AND FULL OF ERRORS WHICH
ARE NOT BORN FROM EXPERIMENT, THE MOTHER OF CERTAINTY...
-- LEONARDO DA VINCI, 1452-1519
THE ONE-EYED VIEW OF OUR UNIVERSE SAYS YOU MUST NOT LOOK
FAR AFIELD FOR PROBLEMS. SUCH PROBLEMS MAY NEVER ARRIVE.
INSTEAD, TEND TO THE WOLF WITHIN YOUR FENCES.
THE PACKS RANGING OUTSIDE MAY NOT EVEN EXIST.
-- THE AZHAR BOOK SHAMRA I:4
CHILDREN OF DUNE, BY FRANK HERBERT
THE BEST WAY TO CONVINCE A FOOL THAT HE IS WRONG
IS TO LET HIM HAVE HIS OWN WAY.
JOSH BILLINGS
TELEVISION IS CALLED A MEDIUM BECAUSE IT ISN'T
RARE, AND IT ISN'T WELL DONE.
YOU KNOW YOU'RE A TEACHER WHEN YOU SAY 2, WRITE 3, AND MEAN 4.
-- RONALD ANSTROM, HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER, UNDERWOOD, N.D. 1974
THE RED LIGHT IS ALWAYS LONGER THAN THE GREEN LIGHT.
-- PETER'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY
THE GREAT THING ABOUT BEING IMPERFECT IS THE JOY IT BRINGS OTHERS.
-- SIGN OUTSIDE LAKE AGASSIZ JR. HIGH SCHOOL, FARGO, N.D.
THE NUMBERS ARE MEANINGLESS, BUT THE TRENDS ARE IMPORTANT.
-- LARRY BURGGRAF
IF MATHEMATICALLY YOU END UP WITH THE INCORRECT ANSWER,
TRY MULTIPLYING BY THE PAGE NUMBER.
MUD THROWN IS GROUND LOST -- FROM A TEA BAG
ROSE IS A RED
TY COBB IS BLUE
'CAUSE PETE JUST HIT
NO. 4592.
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
-- Mildred Barthel
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
-- Peter F. Drucker
IT IS BY LOGIC THAT WE PROVE, BUT BY INTUITION THAT WE DISCOVER.
-- J.H.POINCARE (1854-1912)
In the race for quality, there is no finish line.
-- David T. Kearns
IN THE UNIVERSE THE DIFFICULT THINGS ARE DONE AS IF THEY WERE EASY.
-- LAO-TSU
I (ERNEST RUTHERFORD) CAME INTO THE ROOM, WHICH WAS HALF DARK, AND
PRESENTLY
SPOTTED LORD KELVIN IN THE AUDIENCE AND REALIZED I WAS IN TROUBLE AT
THE LAST PART OF MY SPEECH DEALING THE AGE OF THE EARTH, WHERE MY VIEWS
CONFLICTED WITH HIS. TO MY RELIEF KELVIN FELL FAST ASLEEP, BUT AS I CAME
TO THE IMPORTANT POINT, I SAW THE OLD BIRD SIT UP AND COCK A BALEFUL GLANCE
AT ME! THEN A SUDDEN INSPIRATION CAME AND I SAID LORD KELVIN HAD LIMITED
THE AGE OF THE EARTH PROVIDED NO NEW SOURCE WAS DISCOVERED. THAT
PROPHETIC UTTERANCE REFERS TO WHAT WE ARE NOW CONSIDERING TONIGHT, RADIUM!
BEHOLD! THE OLD BOY BEAMED UPON ME.
"IF I COULD JUST GET IT ON PAPER"
LIFE AND INK, THEY RUN OUT AT THE SAME TIME,
OR SO SAID MY OLD FRIEND THE SQUID.
-- JIMMY BUFFETT, 1981
BUT 'GLORY' DOESN'T MEAN 'A NICE KNOCK DOWN ARGUMENT', ALICE OBJECTED.
WHEN I USE A WORD, HUMPTY DUMPTY SAID, IN A RATHER SCORNFUL TONE,
IT MEANS JUST WHAT I CHOOSE IT TO MEAN....
NEITHER MORE NOR LESS....
THE QUESTION IS, SAID ALICE,
WHETHER YOU CAN MAKE WORDS MEAN SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS...
THE QUESTION IS, SAID HUMPTY DUMPTY,
WHICH IS TO BE MASTER....
THAT IS ALL.....
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE WORLD OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS IS LIKE A STAGE,
ON WHICH SCENE AFTER SCENE IS CEASELESSLY PLAYED.
THE ACTORS ON IT ARE THE ELEMENTS.
-- CLEMENS WINKLER BER. 30,13(1897)
(DISCOVERER OF GERMANIUM, FEB 6, 1886)
EVERYBODY NEEDS BEAUTY AS WELL AS BREAD, PLACES TO PLAY IN AND PRAY IN,
WHERE NATURE MAY HEAL AND CHEER AND GIVE STRENGTH TO BODY AND SOUL ALIKE.
-- JOHN MUIR
A SUCCESSFUL PURSUIT OF SCIENCE MAKES A MAN THE
BENEFACTOR OF ALL MANKIND OF EVERY AGE.
-- JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, "EXPERIMENTS AND
OBSERVATIONS ON DIFFERENT KINDS OF AIR", 1774
READER, WHETHER YOU BE DILETTANTE OR PROFESSOR ... SHOW YOURSELF TO BE
MORE HUMAN THAN CRITICAL, AND THEN YOUR PLEASURE WILL INCREASE.
-- DOMENICO SCARLATTI (1738)
HAPPINESS IS NOT HAVING WHAT YOU WANT --
HAPPINESS IS WANTING WHAT YOU HAVE!
-- FROM MRS. SEVERN'S DESK
FROM AN ANONYMOUS WRITER, ON PERSPECTIVE:
MAN, DESPITE HIS ARTISTIC PRETENSIONS, HIS SOPHISTICATION AND MANY
ACCOMPLISHMENTS, OWES THE FACT OF HIS EXISTENCE TO A SIX-INCH LAYER OF
TOPSOIL AND THE FACT THAT IT RAINS.
--
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