Thursday, 7 March 2013

True Blue

True friends stab you in the front.
 — Oscar Wilde

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

No Doubt

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
 — Bertrand Russell

Monday, 4 March 2013

Plagiarism

No scientific discovery, not even Stigler's law, is named after its original discoverer.
 — Stigler's law of eponymy

Saturday, 2 March 2013

Be A Teacher

Those who can, do; 
those who can't, teach.
 — George Bernard Shaw

Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Right & Wrong

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, 
but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
 — Isaac Asimov

Monday, 25 February 2013

Numeracy

If God had wanted Americans to use the metric system,
he would have given them 10 fingers and toes.

Sunday, 24 February 2013

In Two Minds

Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
 — Mark Twain.

Friday, 22 February 2013

Sunday, 17 February 2013

Saturday, 16 February 2013

Compare And Contrast

Science flies you to the moon. 
Religion flies you into buildings.

Thursday, 7 February 2013

Past In Present Tense

History is a set of lies that people have agreed upon.
 — Napoleon Bonaparte