Favorite Quotes

[Dark Mind]

"I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead."

— Albert Einstein (1879—1955).

 

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it ?"

— Albert Einstein.

[Dark Mind]

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

— Albert Einstein.

 

:shrug:

[Dark Mind]

Homer Simpson undoubtedly has the best quotes on anything and nearly everything ;).

 

"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true !"

— Homer Simpson.

:shrug:

[Dark Mind]

"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life — so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."

— Matt Cartmill

 

I hope at least somebody reads all of these :shrug:. I'm not just picking them all "willy nilly", I think most everyone here will enjoy most all of these quotes ;).

[Turtle]

A favorite of mine which I can't find a source for:

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

[Buffy]

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all."

 

-- Lewis Carroll / Chuck Dodgson

[Turtle]

Curiouser & curiouser. - Reverend Dodgson

PS Chuck is one of the earliest photgraphers in the world, as well as a mathematician & story-teller of note.

[Dark Mind]

Was that an allusion to the "art" discussion shared earlier, Turtle :shrug:?

[Turtle]

It is now. :shrug: Nothing is not connected. - Turtle George

[infamous]

Beware of small expenses, a small leak will sink a great ship.

[Boerseun]

"When you're being chased by a police dog, try not to run through a tunnel, jump over a little see-saw, and then go through a hoop that's on fire. They're trained for that."

- unknown criminal.

[infamous]

"Art and the love thereof expose what mankind thinks of himself"............ infamous

[infamous]

A good time to keep one's mouth closed is; when they find themselves in deep water.

[Dark Mind]

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

--Anne Frank

[infamous]

For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong........................Henry Louis Mencken

[infamous]

A soft answer turns away wrath.

[Dark Mind]

"Good is never good enough, when better is expected!"

--Thomas Fuller