Thursday, 13 January 2011

Useful Latin Phrases

Salvé! (Hello!)
Nómen mihí est Quinctílió. (My name is Quinctilius.)
Quid nómen tibí est? (What is your name?)
Ut valés? (How are you?)
Valeó, et tú? (I'm well, and you?)
Aegrótó. (I'm ill.)
Ubí latrína est? (Where is the toilet?)

Ubí habitás? (Where do you live?)
Habitó Rómae. (I live in Rome.)
Liceatne mihí numerum telephonicum tuum habére? (May I have your phone number?)
Labóró capite. (I have a headache.)
Nunc est mihí domum féstínandum. (Now I have to go home.)
Valé! (Good bye!)

Spectacles

It is the theory which decides what we can observe.
— Albert Einstein

You see what your knowledge tells you you're seeing.
— James Burke 'The Day The Universe Changed: The Way We Are'

Concepts Vs The External World

Physical concepts are the free creations of the human mind and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
— Albert Einstein 'The Evolution of Physics'

One More World Lost …

It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
— John Fowles 'The Magus'

Creating Images

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as poetry. The poet, too, is not so nearly concerned with describing facts, but creating images.
— Niels Bohr to Werner Heisenberg

Peripheral Vision

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over.
Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the centre.
— Kurt Vonnegut

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
— Albert Camus

Widely Held Beliefs

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
— Bertrand Russell

Observing Relations

Physics is not events, but observations; relativity is the understanding of the world, not as events, but as relations.
— Jacob Bronowski 'The Ascent Of Man'

Inverse Proportions

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

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Climate Change Septics

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
— Groucho Marx

Sour Great Apes

Pomo Sapiens

We don't understand
he must be clever
— Peter Hammill 'The Jargon King'

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
— Albert Camus

Monday, 10 January 2011

Sunday, 9 January 2011

Pre-emptive Strike

An apple a day keeps 3 doctors away for 8 hours.

Punctuality

The early worm is eaten by a bird.

An Age Of Surfaces

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
If you can fake that, you've got it made.
— Groucho Marx

A Remedy Of Errors

Politics is the art of looking for trouble,
finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly
and applying the wrong remedies.
— Groucho Marx

The Opposite Of Espionage

Create all the happiness you are able to create;
remove all the misery you are able to remove.
— Jeremy Bentham

Climate Change

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
— Juvenal

Saturday, 8 January 2011

Fuscoferuginous

Fancy Tickling

knismesis — light tickling
gargalesis — heavy tickling
gargalesthesia — the sensation caused by tickling

The Smell Of Rain On Dry Ground

Iconicity

hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian —
pertaining to extremely long words

Psithurism

Interfenestration

Metaphors

Every religion is true one way or another.
It is true when understood metaphorically.
But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors,
interpreting them as facts,
then you are in trouble.
— Joseph Campbell

God is a metaphor
for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought.
— Joseph Campbell

Sole Parent

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
— Æschylus