"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

—Eric Temple Bell (1883–1960)


It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
-Archimedes (287bc - 212bc)

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."
-Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)

Do you think these guys envisioned SETI ?

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
-Archimedes (287bc - 212bc)

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."
-Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)

Do you think these guys envisioned SETI ?

I think Newton was taking a pot shot at Hooke...

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"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
-Archimedes (287bc - 212bc)

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."
-Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)

Do you think these guys envisioned SETI ?

I think Newton was taking a pot shot at Hook...

I've heard that Newton was not a very nice man, and he really couldn't stand Robert Hook. Newton comes across as a bit of a prima donna.

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Sometimes I think we are alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we are not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

Hhhhhhmmmmmmmmm. Okay. Not sure I agree, but thanks for the history lesson. How about this.....

"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

..........or........

"Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford."
Cindy Crawford (1966 - Present)

Sage words indeed!! ;)

And in the morning, I shall be sober......

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

When the laws of Nature have been discovered in their entirety, it will be found that though all things are not permitted, all things are possible.
---Shane Leslie (1885-1971)

Why do croutons come in airtight packages?

Aren't they? just stale bread to begin with?

"I know what I'm doing"
5 minutes before a bad day in my life.

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"Women do two-thirds of the world’s work, receive 10 percent of the world’s income and own 1 percent of the means of production."

— Richard H. Robbins, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, (Allyn and Bacon, 1999), p. 354

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"Women do two-thirds of the world’s work, receive 10 percent of the world’s income and own 1 percent of the means of production."

— Richard H. Robbins, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, (Allyn and Bacon, 1999), p. 354

R I P

Alice schwarzer.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

From a headstone in Ireland:
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

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James Freeman Clarke:
A politician thinks of the next election - a statesman, of the next generation.

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George Burns:
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

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Theodore Roosevelt:
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

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Abraham Lincoln:
Character is like a tree and a reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Mark Twain:
Get the facts first. You can distort them later.

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