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"[we have therefore shown] that not only does God play dice, but that he
sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen..."
Stephen Hawking
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think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
Why Memorise Anything that you can Look up.
I tried that one, but my prof's didn't go for it.
Adam (scr...@ecf.utoronto.ca)
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I keep falling off.
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"used without permission from Gerard, it was his idea."
- Ian
Albert said "no dice!"
Albert, dance around
Albert, be profound
Albert let your hair stick out
Your socks hang down
Albert played the fiddle
He loved to dance and sing
Now if that ain't genius
That ain't anything
That ain't anything etc.
It did not last; the devil howling "Ho!
Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo.
-- Rao Akella <r...@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%mo...@umnacvx.bitnet>
"Everything should be as simple as possible -- but not simpler."
We have a poster here with that on it, and Einstein's picture.
Apparently, the poster is attributing the quote to Einstein.
Don't know if it's true, though.
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These are my opinions, which should ONLY make you read, think, and question.
They do NOT necessarily reflect the views of my employer or fellow workers.
If I am wrong then the French will say that I am a German
and the Germans will say that I am a Jew. Ah, but if I am
right then the Germans will say that I am a German and the
French will say that I am a Jew.
( I might have the order backwards here. )
>One of my favourites goes something like this....
> If I am wrong then the French will say that I am a German
> and the Germans will say that I am a Jew. Ah, but if I am
> right then the Germans will say that I am a German and the
> French will say that I am a Jew.
. . . French will claim me as a citizen of the world.
>( I might have the order backwards here. )
- Ian
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"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -J. Handey
Alexander Pope.
> It did not last: the devil howling "Ho!
> Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo.
Sir John Collins Squire.
I have corrected the punctuation and capitalization in both couplets
to agree with the versions printed in "A Random Walk in Science"
(1973, compiled by R.L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza), except that
I have left in the quotation marks where the book version had italics.
A few other quotes from the same book while I have it open...
Leo Szilard visited another scientist, who was flustered when
asked to explain his work. He didn't know what to assume.
Szilard said:
"You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence."
Werner von Braun:
"Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what
I am doing."
Tom Margerison, reviewing Bruce M. Cooper's book "Writing Technical
Reports" in 1965:
"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."
Frederic Joliot-Curie, quoted by M.A. Markov (thus having gone through
two translations):
"The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is
to the Nobel Prize."
Enrico Fermi, to Emilio Segre:
"Emilio, I am getting rusty and old, I cannot follow the
highbrow theory developed by Oppenheimer's pupils any more.
I went to their seminar and was depressed by my inability
to understand them. Only the last sentence cheered me up.
It was: 'And this is Fermi's theory of beta decay.'"
Mark Twain (Life on the Mississippi):
"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such
wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling
investment of fact."
Sir Isaac Newton:
"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the
shoulders of Giants."
Gerald Holton, commenting on the greatly increased number of scientists
in modern times:
"In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit
side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand."
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SoftQuad Inc., Toronto of original thought" -- Lord Peter Wimsey
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This article is in the public domain.
"All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization --
is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal."
"Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be
an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels."
"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."
"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must
above all be a sheep oneself."
These are all taken from "Einstein: A Portrait," which I would highly
recommend. "Albert Einstein, The Human Side" also has a fine collection
of comments, letters, and such.
John Rickert
rick...@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a
will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who
should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension,... ;
such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.
H}vard Fosseng
Reminds me of a quote I always liked:
In heaven, the French are the cooks, the English are the policemen and the
Germans are the engineers.
In hell, the French are the engineers, the English are the cooks, and the
Germans are the policemen...
. <<<<Infinite K>>>>
"I'm surrounded by idiots of my own design!" - Joel, MST3k
"Watch it, Kenzie..."
"What'll you do, ruin my career?"
"What career?" - Nathan Spring, _Starcops_
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|> In heaven, the French are the cooks, the English are the policemen and the
|> Germans are the engineers.
|>
|> In hell, the French are the engineers, the English are the cooks, and the
|> Germans are the policemen...
I've heard a number of versions of this... can only remember Russians being the
poets and Italians being the lovers, with everything organized by the Swiss in
heaven, and hell having the Russians as the lovers and everything being organized
by the Italians. Anyone have a more complete version?
I also like the crack made by a former Canadian prime minister whose identity
escapes me:
"Canada was supposed to get British government, French culture and American know-
how. Instead, it got French government, American culture and British know-how."
Close. What Einstein said, in an address at the Sorbonne, was:
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim
me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world.
: - Ian
Here's one he used quite a lot:
"no."
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"Is it just me or has the world always been like that and I've been to
wraped up in myself to notice?" [Arthur Dent, THHGTTG]
Shachar Shemesh (TheSun on IRC) sha...@ccsg.tau.ac.il
My opinions are my own, not those of Commodore. In fact - I have
nothing to do with Commodore at all.
Actually, the first is a little closer to some of what I've read, but
to "jew" add Swiss-- they'll call me a Swiss Jew.
to german add savant " " " " German Savant.
It was roughly in september of 1919, and I wish I could find it again.
It should be in a letter to Paul Ehrenfest, though I wouldn't be
surprised if he repeated it (in another variation) elsewhere.
No, I'm not saying this in any official capacity.
another $.02,
Chaplin.
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- Albert Einstein
That is not the exact wording.
Klaus O K
Certainly not if the original quote was in German (?) 8>)
Bill
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I used to think that I was cool.
Running around on fossil fuel.
Until I saw what I was doing.
Was driving down the road to ruin.
James Taylor
"Gravitation is not responsible for
people falling in love."
- A. Einstein
> - Albert Einstein
This is a rather nice one..
`Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds'
-- Albert Einstein
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I've heard variations on this one before. It seems to me there needs
to be a corollary:
The fact that you encounter violent opposition does not ensure that
your spirit is great nor that their minds are mediocre.
-or-
Some people who encounter violent opposition deserve it.
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jo...@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu -or- 415/926-2846
Neither Stanford nor the DOE would be caught dead with these opinions.
Nor do they consult me when formulating theirs.
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In article <C11Lo...@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Jo Ann Malina (jo...@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU) responds that:
>
>I've heard variations on this one before. It seems to me there needs
>to be a corollary:
>
>The fact that you encounter violent opposition does not ensure that
>your spirit is great nor that their minds are mediocre.
>
>-or-
>
>Some people who encounter violent opposition deserve it.
>
As it happens, quotes have contexts. In this instance, AE is
making an observation respecting Bertrand Russell, who had been made
an offer of a faculty position at CUNY. That offer was withdrawn
under the pressure of a reactionary furor initiated by the Episcopal
bishop of New York. Understandably, a full statement of the
ramifications, exceptions, and converses was not appropriate in the
context in which this statement was made. Or did not seem so to
the author.
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.
The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly
submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his
intelligence."
Also from AE:
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a
cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans
themselves." (1929)
Actually, I believe that was Mark Twain.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics, I can assure
you mine are still greater.
God does not play dice with the universe.
These cool enough?
edow...@maths.tcd.ie
"Ya can talk all ya wanna, but it's dif'rent than it was!"
"No it aint! But ya gotta know the territory!"
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