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A mathematician is a
device for turning coffee
into theorems
- Paul Erdos

~ Science ~

Back off man, I'm a scientist
- Bill Murray
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Black holes are where God divided by zero
- Unknown
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I feel like I'm diagonally parked
in a parallel universe
- Unknown
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Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former
- Albert Einstein
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We all agree that your theory is crazy,
but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr
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Why do scientists call it research
when looking for something new?
- Unknown
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In numerical analysis, you can have 2+2=5,
for 2 big enough and 5 small enough
- Unknown
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The goal of science is to build better
mousetraps. The goal of nature is
to build better mice
- Unknown
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In theory, there is no difference
between theory and practice.
In practice, however, there is
- Unknown
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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems
- Paul Erdos
(from jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu)
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To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion
- Unknown
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97.3% of all statistics are made up
- Unknown
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The light at the end of the tunnel is usually a No Exit sign
- Unknown
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Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives
- Unknown
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The speed of time is one second per second
- Unknown
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Life is complex.
It has real and imaginary components
- Unknown
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Science is Truth;
don't be misled by facts
- Unknown
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Math is like love, a simple idea
but it can get complicated
- Unknown
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Theoretical Physics is a science locally isomorphic to Mathematics
- Unknown
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A probability is a desperate attempt of chaos to become stable
- Unknown
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Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same
thing as division
- Unknown
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A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it
- Unknown
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The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible
- Albert Einstein
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18
- Albert Einstein
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it
to your grandmother
- Albert Einstein
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Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery
- Enrico Fermi
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Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives--of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process
- Roger Ebert
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In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence
- P. L. Berger
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal
- George Bernard Shaw
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This is a classic case of what is often called physics envy, a disease that causes behavioral biologists to fear their discipline lacks the rigor of physiology, physiologists to wish for the techniques of biochemists, biochemists to covet the clarity of the answers revealed by molecular geneticists, all the way down until you get to the physicists who confer only with God
- Stephen Jay Gould
(from Bob Boyle)
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The atom of modern physics can be symbolized only through a partial differential equation in an abstract space of many dimensions. All its properties are inferential; no material properties can be directly attributed to it. That is to say, any picture of the atom that our imagination is able to invent is for that very reason defective. An understanding of the atomic world in that primary sensuous fashion...is impossible
- Heisenberg
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There comes a time in every project when you've got to shoot the engineer
and start production
- Unknown
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There's more to science than just hurting small animals, but it's the part
that's the most fun
- Scott Adams
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Radioactive cats have nine half-lives
- Unknown
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I don't like it and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it
- Erwin Shroedinger
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Living with a dog is easy -- like living with an idealist
- HL Menken
(from Bob Boyle)
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In the beginning the universe was created, this made a lot of people angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move
- Douglas Adams;
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
(from Lars Nielsohn)
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