Quotes 3

"A healthy relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other."--Nepalese Matra

"We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience." --Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the state of Virginia, 1782

"Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825

"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature."--Niels Bohr

The task is..not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees."--Erwin Schrodinger

"Put your hand in the fire?"--David Mahoney

"No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; in deed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others."--Thomas Kuhn

"LAB RULES:
1. First draw your curves, then plot your data.
2. If you can't get the answer in the usual manner, start at the answer and derive the question.
3. In case of doubt, make it sound convincing."
--Anonymous

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." --Mark Twain

"Common sense is not so common." --Voltaire

"The very essence of instinct is that it is followed independently of reason." --Charles Darwin

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."--Robert Frost

"If evolution is the explanation, then evolution has a lot of explaining to do." --Geoffrey Simmons

"Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious." --Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (found at beginning of Ch. 12 in "Rare Earth...")

" If thy head offend thee, cut it off; for it is better, not merely to enter the Kingdom of Heaven as a child, but to enter it as an imbecile, rather than with your whole intellect to be cast into hell -- or into Hanwell."--"Orthodoxy, Ch. 2" GK Chesterton

"Free thought has exhausted its own freedom. It is weary of its own success."--"Orthodoxy, Ch. 3" GK Chesterton