Favorite Quotes

[hallenrm]

“Biology is never an excuse for anything.”

 

Dario Maestripieri

 

In a recent article in New Scientist, Nov 2 2006 issue, entitled Child abuse Nature or Nurture

 

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10430-child-abuse-nature-or-nurture-.html

[Turtle]

Do not confuse an excuse with a reason. - Beatrix Hanna Goodwon

[Pyrotex]

"Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun." --anon

[Pyrotex]

"Physics is not a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money." -- Leon Lederman

[Pyrotex]

"You cannot reason a man out of something he was not reasoned into." -- Jonathan Swift

[Pyrotex]

"Predictions are hard to make; especially about the future." -- Niels Bohr (or possibly Mark Twain)

[Turtle]

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. - Æsop

[Pyrotex]

"The Future? I say, either live it, or live with it!"

-- Firesign Theatre (comedy album)

[Turtle]

Keep working on your wit... you are half way there. - Mark Rogers Bohr

[Turtle]

The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. -- T. Fuller

[Turtle]

If the price of Freedom is eternal vigilance, then the cost is periodic fatigue. -- Beatrix Anna Goodwon

[IDMclean]

This is in response to the "What is a Thought Thread".

 

What is a drop of rain, compared to the storm?

What is a thought, compared to the mind?

Our unity is full of wonder, which your tiny individualism cannot even conceive.

[moo]

The simplest solution is often the correct one (i.e. when you hear hoofbeats, think horses - not zebras).

 

moo

[Michaelangelica]

Bored with these signature quotes now.

Park them here and look for new ones

 

"The universe is not only stranger than we know,

it is stranger than we can know"

Arthur C Clarke

 

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know.

There are known unkowns. That is to say, there are things we know we don't know.

But, there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don't know we don't know.

-- Rumsfield

[Turtle]

I knew that. - Unattested

[Boerseun]

"Eagles may soar, but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines."

- Jack Handy

[Turtle]

One must know the extent of the box before thinking outside of it, and one needn't know what is right to say what is wrong.

- Roger Thelonious George -