Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Rendition

Facebook puts the CIA in social media.

Monday, 15 October 2012

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Scientists are explorers. 
Philosophers are tourists.
 — Richard Feynman

Friday, 12 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

Friday, 5 October 2012

Wednesday, 3 October 2012

More Or Less

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. 
So is a lot.
 — Albert Einstein

Monday, 1 October 2012

Vulgarity

Common sense is not so common.
 — Voltaire

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

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

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.
 — Albert Einstein

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Pornosophy

Philosophy is to science as pornography is to sex.
 — Steve Jones

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Men

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
 — Galileo Galilei

Monday, 24 September 2012

Exploding A Myth

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
 — 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