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alacrity fitzhugh Member (Idle past 4308 days) Posts: 194 Joined: |
Murray Gell-Mann:
Youngsters,tired of badly programmed computers and people who act like badly programmed computers ,are turning to tarot cards and charlatans. Really sums up the education problem in this country. orGalileo: The holy ghost shows us how one goes to heaven,not how heaven goes. |
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Angeldust Inactive Member |
Go for greek, it looks more poetic, Hebrew just looks choppy.
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DC85 Member Posts: 876 From: Richmond, Virginia USA Joined: |
Here are some more quotes
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
Winston Churchill
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. Louis Pasteur
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe. Albert Einstein
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Denesha Inactive Member |
Hi there,
This is my favourite quote:"We walk a thin line between what is creative but still scientifically acceptable and what is speculative and of dubious value" Michal Kowalewski, 2001 Why? If I could, I'll carve this quote on my keyboard as I could check it each time I attempt to write nonsense. Denesha
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Riley Inactive Member |
I've kept a quote book for 35 years now, so it's hard to pick a favorite:
I have made but one prayer to God, a very brief one:Lord,make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it. -Voltaire ...as though banging a drum in search of a fugitive.-Chuang-tse Wagner's music is better than it sounds.-Mark Twain Who would have thought that the fatal flaw of communismwould turn out to be that there's no money in it? —A.Whitney Brown I don't wanna say Jezebel is easy, but beforeshe moved to Sodom it was known for its pottery. -Krusty the Clown |
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1524 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
"The truth: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful."
Source Unknown. I like this quote because it says something on many levels. IMO
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Kismet622 Inactive Member |
Lady Astor: "Mr. Churchill, you're drunk!"
Winston Churchill: "Yes, and you, Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow, I shall be sober." ~~~~~ Lady Astor: "Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your tea."Churchill: "Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."
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jar Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
quote: Aslan is not a Tame Lion |
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TechnoCore Inactive Member |
Here is qoute from the film "Fear and loathing in Las Vegas".
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." Just gotta that one
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Garf Inactive Member |
"The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever." - Anatole France
It reminds me of when I was a kid and I used to buy into all the fantasy and mysticism. I use think how boring heaven would be without TV, videogames, baseball, and dirty jokes.
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Cold Foreign Object  Suspended Member (Idle past 3068 days) Posts: 3417 Joined: |
I'll add mine with a twist.
What famous person said : "The greatest aphrodisiac is authority"
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BigMike Inactive Member |
Perhaps you are slightly misremembering "Power is the greatest aphrodisiac", atrributed to Henry Kissenger(sp?).
See my sig for my favorite quote. I'm also fond of... Claudio: Can all the world purchase such a jewel? (ref. to Hero) Benedick: Yea, and a box to put it into, too. "Faith is believing what you know ain’t so." Mark Twain
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berberry Inactive Member |
One of my favorite Mark Twain quotes has to do with the music of Richard Wagner. He said something to the effect that "Wagner's music isn't as bad as it sounds".
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DC85 Member Posts: 876 From: Richmond, Virginia USA Joined: |
that reminds me of a fairly common saying
I may be fat but your ugly and I can diet
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DC85 Member Posts: 876 From: Richmond, Virginia USA Joined: |
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
John Maynard Keynes
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes.
Neil Postman
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.
Mark Twain
Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh--not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.
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