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

Thursday, 20 September 2012

Epicircles

Big whirls have little whirls,
That feed on their velocity;
And little whirls have lesser whirls,
And so on to viscosity.
 — Lewis Fry Richardson

Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Insufficient Proof

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.
 — Edward Teller

Monday, 17 September 2012

Sine Qua Non

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
 — Charles Franklin Kettering

Saturday, 15 September 2012

Flattery

Learn from the mistakes of others. 
You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
 ― Groucho Marx

Friday, 14 September 2012

Thursday, 13 September 2012

Collected Thoughts

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead. 
 — Kurt Vonnegut

Tuesday, 11 September 2012