Sunday, 21 October 2012
Saturday, 20 October 2012
Friday, 19 October 2012
Thursday, 18 October 2012
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Monday, 15 October 2012
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Scientists are explorers.
Philosophers are tourists.
— Richard Feynman
Labels:
Philosophy,
Richard Feynman,
Science
Sunday, 14 October 2012
Saturday, 13 October 2012
Friday, 12 October 2012
Thursday, 11 October 2012
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Bouncing Ideas
There is no adequate defence, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
— Percy Williams Bridgman
Monday, 8 October 2012
Sunday, 7 October 2012
Saturday, 6 October 2012
Friday, 5 October 2012
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
More Or Less
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
So is a lot.
— Albert Einstein
Labels:
Albert Einstein
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Majority Rules
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side?
And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?
— Mark Twain
Labels:
Mark Twain
Saturday, 29 September 2012
The Game Of Life
Laws of Thermodynamics
1. You cannot win.
2. You cannot break even.
3. You cannot stop playing the game.
— Anon
Friday, 28 September 2012
The But-A-Lie Effect
The least deviation from the truth is multiplied later.
— Aristotle
Labels:
Aristotle,
Philosophy
Thursday, 27 September 2012
God Of The New Physics
The word 'god' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses,
the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless childish.
the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless childish.
— Albert Einstein
Labels:
Albert Einstein,
Mythology
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Men
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
— Galileo Galilei
Labels:
Galileo Galilei
Monday, 24 September 2012
Exploding A Myth
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
— Oscar Wilde
Labels:
Oscar Wilde
Sunday, 23 September 2012
Work
The production of useful work is strictly limited by the laws of thermodynamics.
The production of useless work seems to be unlimited.
— Donald E. Simanek
Saturday, 22 September 2012
Self-Perpetuating Motions
...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that they can without difficulty write in like manner themselves and win applause for it. And so it perpetuates itself.
— G. A. Wells
Friday, 21 September 2012
Chemical Attraction
To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertiliser.
— Hermann Joseph Muller
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