All Quotes
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The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.Frederic Joliot-Curie, quoted by M.A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West
Nothing great was ever acheived without enthusiasm.R. W. Emerson
It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.Douglas Hostadter
Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.Stanislaw Lec
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.Vilhjalmur Stefansson, "Discovery", 1964
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
Experience...is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde
It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.Willie Sutton
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.Sigmund Freud