The great tragedy of science -- ..................................................
the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Henry Huxley
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The great tragedy of science -- ..................................................
the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Henry Huxley
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The larger a man's roof,.............................................
the more snow it collects.
Proverb
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"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete,.............................................
everybody will respect you."
Lao-Tzu
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The road to positivity.................................................. .........
is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
Peter McWilliams
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When a man's knowledge is not in order,......................................
the more of it he has,..................................
the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer
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There are three kinds of intelligence;..............................
one kind understands things for itself,................................
the other appreciates what others can understand,.............................
the third understands neither for itself nor through others..............................
This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, 1514
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A canner exceedingly canny
One morning remarked to his granny:
“A canner can can
Any thing that he can..............
But a canner can’t can a can, can he?"
Carolyn Wells
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"Genius is one percent inspiration ...............................................
and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Thomas Alva Edison, One of the many proverbs/sayings written by Thomas Edison.
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If your ship doesn't come in,.......................................
swim out to it.
Jonathan Winters
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Make progress one time and it makes you happy............................................
Make progress day after day, week after week and it makes you a champion.
Greg Werner
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Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future...........................................
We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.
Eric Hoffer
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"We should take care not to make the intellect our god;............................
it has, of course, powerful muscles,
but no personality."
Albert Einstein
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Jam tomorrow, and jam yesterday, but never today.
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second........................................
When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour...........................
That's relativity."
Albert Einstein, On relativity
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The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism,......................................
but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program........................................
until one day America will be a Socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened.
Norman Thomas
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Start by doing what is necessary,.......................................
then do what is possible,..................................
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Saint Francis of Assisi
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Arizona State University cosmologist Lawrence KraussWe live at a very interesting time, namely the only time in which we can empirically verify that we live in a very interesting time.
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Truth is heavy,............................
so few men carry it.
Jewish Folk Saying
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Only Irish Coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups:....................
alcohol, caffeine, sugar, fat.
Alex Levine
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"That leaves 93 percent of "potential" untapped..................................
Humans only use 10 percent of the brain and 7 percent of company databases,................................................
yet we’re always 100 percent sure of everything.............................
That just doesn’t add up."
Christina Bultinck, Mine Your Own Business, "Executive Update magazine"
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"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up....................................
that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."
R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience
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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself,...................................................
it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.
Mark Twain, 70th birthday speech
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We all live under the same sky,...............................................
but we don't all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer
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