Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world\in jeopardy.\ --John Dewey
There has been opposition to every innovation in the history of\man, with the possible exception of the sword.\ --Benjamin Dana
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science\fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?\ --Kelvin Throop, III
It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.\ --L. Sprague de Camp
The important thing is never to stop questioning.\ --Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has,\of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.\ --Albert Einstein
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all\conceivable.\ --Albert Einstein
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something\is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that\something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.\ --Arthur C. Clarke
When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is\denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports\that idea with great fevor and emotion--the distinguished but\elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.\ --Isaac Asimov
Poverty: An unhappy state that persists as long as anyone lacks\anything he would like to have.\ --Kelvin Throop III, "The Management Dictionary"
Statistics: A system for expressing your political prejudices\in convincing scientific guise.\ --Kelvin Throop III, "The Management Dictionary"
Zero defects: The result of shutting down a production line.\ --Kelvin Throop III, "The Management Dictionary"
Conference: A place where conversation is substituted for the\dreariness of work and the loneliness of thought.\ --Kelvin Throop III, "The Management Dictionary"
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was\put up.\ --G.K. Chesterton
When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.\ --Anonymous
Why explore the Universe? It is almost ironic that we should\have to ask this question because it is almost as though we have\to apologize for our highest attributes... we went to Mars, not\because of our technology, but because of our imagination.\ --Norman Cousins
OLTION'S COMPLETE, UNABRIDGED HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE\Bang! ...crumple.\ --Jery Oltion
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less\the artist does the better.\ --Andre Gide
Cream rises to the top. So does fat.\ --Kelvin Throop, III
Computer people have often spoken of the "gigo" effect, meaning\"Garbage in--garbage out." What gives some of us chills is the\thought of a second meaning of "gigo": "Garbage in--gospel out."\It can happen here.\ --Kelvin Throop, III
If right-handedness is determined by development of the left side\of the brain, is it possible that only left-handed people are in\their right mind?\ --Kelvin Throop, III
"Freedom" has no meaning of itself. There are always restrictions,\be they legal, genetic, or physical. If you don't believe me, try\to chew a radio signal.\ --Kelvin Throop, III
I'm a self-made man, but I think if I had to do it over again,\I'd call in someone else.\ --Roland Young
It is a faith (not always justified) of theoretical physics that\if man proposes what is sufficiently elegant, nature, pleased and\flattered, will say yes.\ --Leon N. Cooper, "Introduction To The Meaning & Structure\ Of Physics"
Better late than before anybody has invited you.\ --Ambrose Bierce
The difference between a rabbit and a rock is the information\content, and the difference between a living and a dead rabbit\is in the availability or usability of the information.\ --Dr. John A. Ball
If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if\it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but\also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity\with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing.\ --John F. Kennedy
Even if the propeller had the power of propelling a vessel, it\would be found altogether useless in practice, because the power\being applied in the stern would be absolutely impossible to make\the vessel steer.\ --Sir William Symonds - British Royal Navy, 1837
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of\bad training.\ --Anna Freud
Well, sometimes, anyway.\ --The Editor
A man about to speak the truth should keep one foot in the\stirrup.\ --Old Mongolian Saying
There is a coherent plan in the universe,\though I don't know what it's a plan for.\ --Fred Hoyle
Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship\it. Feed it.\ --Aubrey Eben
There is no knowledge that is not power.\ --Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is important to keep an open mind,\but not so open that your brains fall out.\ --Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
Hugh Downs' Four Rules for Investigating the Universe:\Rule #1--When confronted with an apparent infinite or infinitely\ repeating pattern, expect some variant that keeps it from\ being infinite.\Rule #2--When all investigation supports Rule 1, look for a\ situation which violates it.\Rule #3--Be prepared for an infinite oscillation between Rules 1\ and 2.\Rule #4--Apply Rule 1.
Although plastic was brought into industrial use in 1909 by L.H.\Baekeland of Yonkers, it was not until after World War II that the\modern miracle substance was used in a wide variety of consumer\goods, among them speedboats, dentures and flamingos. Previously\flamingos were made of cement. Before that they were made by other\flamingos.\ --William E. Geist, The New York Times
The mass media is supported and sustained by commercial entities.\And corn flakes and Shakespeare are simply not kissing cousins.\Leonard Bernstein and living bras are incompatible. And you cannot\sustain adult, probing, meaningful drama when the proceedings are\interrupted every twelve minutes by a dozen dancing rabbits with\toilet paper.\ --Rod Serling
If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.\ --Kelvin Throop
Put all your eggs in one basket, and WATCH THAT BASKET!\ --Jerry Buchmeyer
Any fully matured science of ecology will have to grapple with\the fact that from the ecological point of view, man is one of\those animals which is in danger from its too successful\participation in the struggle for existence.\ --Joseph Wood Krutch
All of the books in the world contain no more information\than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in\a single year. Not all bits have equal value.\ --Carl Sagan
The universe is full of magical things,\patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.\ --Eden Phillpots
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is\out of focus.\ --Mark Twain
The religion that is afraid of science dishoners God and\commits suicide.\ --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Judging a piece of fiction by the quality of its writing\without considering its subject matter is like buying a car\because it has a pretty paint job, without considering the\state of its engine and transmission.\ --Kelvin Throop
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't\need an enemy.\ --Kurt Vonnegut
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.\ --H.G. Wells
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies\ --Honore de Balzac
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures,\out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.\ --Stanislaw Lem
We will rediscover a [New York City] river so extravagantly\polluted that new life forms will emerge from it spontaneously,\demanding welfare and voting rights.\ --Douglas Adams
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western\civilization would presumably flunk it.\ --Stanley Garn
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life,\wants another one which will last forever.\ --Anatole France
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey\off a thorn.\ --Louis Adamic
Pessimists have already begun to worry about what is going to\replace automation.\ --John Tudor
The totality is present even in the broken pieces\ --Aldous Huxley
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.\ --Lillian Hellman
We are on a threshold of a change in the universe comparable\to the transition from nonlife to life.\ --Hans Moravec (on artificial intelligence)
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man\doesn't have to experience it.\ --Max Frisch
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.\ --Anonymous
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the\universe seems to be missing.\ --William J. Broad
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit\still in a room.\ --Blaise Pascal
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will\not understand what he finds.\ --Claude Bernard
"I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized\ man. It is us."\ --Konrad Lorenz
"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't\ intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises."\ --Neil Armstrong
"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs\ I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."\ --James Thurber
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the\ road. They get run over."\ --Aneurin Bevan
"Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and\ published every day, like those of a baseball player."\ --Anonymous
"It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly\ not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off."\ --Woody Allen
"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."\ --W. Somerset Maugham
"Perhaps the best thing about the future is that it only comes\ one day at a time."\ --Dean Acheson
"Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out;\ it's one of the most charming things about them."\ --Germaine Greer
"Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over\ everything, except over technology."\ --John Tudor
"New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not\ belittled, the humiliating question arises, 'Why then are you\ not taking part in them?'"\ --H. G. Wells
"There is considerable evidence that great empires and\ civilizations have been undone not by barbarian invaders\ but by climatic change."\ --1977 CIA report
"We all worry about the population explosion--but we don't worry\ about it at the right time."\ --Arthur Hoppe
"Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called\ stardust?"\ --Lane Olinghouse
"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then\ stumbling on on something witty."\ --Jane Austin
