Random Quotes
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Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable.Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
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