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NEW YORK, JUNE 5, 1852
A few days ago a powerful blast was made in the rock at Meeting House Hill,
in Dorchester, a few rods south of Rev. Mr. Hall's meeting house. The blast
threw out an immense mass of rock, some of the pieces weighing several tons
and scattered small fragments in all directions. Among them was picked up a
metallic vessel in two parts, rent assunder by the explosion. On putting
the two parts together it formed a bell-shaped vessel, 4 1/2 inches high, 6
1/2 inches at the base, 2 1/2 inches at the top, and about an eighth of an
inch in thickness. The body of this vessel resembles zinc in color, or a
composition metal, in which there is a considerable portion of silver. On
the sides there are six figures of a flower, or bouguet, beautifully inlaid
with pure silver. On the sides there are six figures of a flower or
bouquet, beautifully inlaid with pure silver.... This curious and unknown
vessel was blown out of the solid pudding stone, fifteen feet below the
surface. It is now in the possession of Mr. John Kettell... He has taken a
drawing and accurate dimensions of it, to be submitted to the scientific.
There is no doubt but that this curiousity was blown out of the rock, as
above stated; but will Professor Agassiz, or some other scientific man
please to tell us how it came there?....
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Volume V II. NEW YORK, JUNE 5, 1852 (NUMBER 38)
"In my search for the secret of life, I
ended up with atoms and electrons, which
have no life at all. Somewhere along the
line, life has run out through my
fingers. So, in my old age I am now
retracing my steps..."
ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI
1937 Nobel Laureate,
Physiology and Medicineè
"We can admittedly find nothing in
physics or chemistry that has even a
remote bearing on consciousness. Yet all
of us know that there is such a thing as
consciousness simply because we have it
ourselves. Hence consciousness must be
part of nature, or, more generally, of
reality, which means that quite apart
fromthe laws of physics and chemistry,
as laid down in quantum theory, we must
also consider laws of quite a different
kind." NIELS BOHR 1922 NOBEL LAUREATE,
PHYSICS.
Let us begin by committing ourselves to
the truth-to see it like it is, and
tell it like it is-to find the truth,
to speak the truth, and to live the
truth-RICHARD NIXON,on accepting the
presidential nomination in 1968
A man is not finished when he's
defeated; he's finished when he quits-
RICHARD NIXON
There's nothing sadder than an old
hipster-LENNY BRUCE
When I was kidnapped my parents snapped
into action, they rented out my room-
WOODY ALLEN
When people tell you how young you
look, they are also telling you how old
you are-CARY GRANT
When a man sits with a pretty girl for
an hour, it seems like a minute. But
let him sit on a hot stove for a
minute-and it's longer than any
hour.That's relativity-ALBERT EINSTEIN
One can never consent to creep when one
feels an impulse to soar-HELEN KELLER
Man cannot live by incompetence alone-
LAURENCE PETER
"Pioneering basically amounts to finding
new and more horrible ways to die" -
John W. Campbell -
"That man is richest whose pleasures are
cheapest" - Thoreau -
Life is not one thing after another....
it's the same damn thing over and over!
The meek will inherit the Earth..... The
rest of us will go to the stars.
After all is said and done, a lot more
has been said than done.
Beauty is only skin deep, but Ugly goes
straight to the bone.
Any given program, when running
correctly, is obsolete.
Tell a man that there are 300 billion
stars in the universe, and he'll believe
you.... Tell him that a bench has wet
paint upon it and he'll have to touch
it to be sure.
What matters is not the length of the
wand, but the magic in the stick.
"Discovery consists in seeing what
everyone else has seen and thinking what
no one else has thought." - Albert
Szent-Gyorgi -
I really hate this damn machine, I wish
that they would sell it. It never does
just what I want, But only what I tell
it.
"Some people like my advice so much that
they frame it upon the wall instead of
using it" - Gordon R. Dickson -
è"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
- Bert Lantz -
Ode to Turbulent Flow: Big whirls have
little whirls Which feed on their
velocity, And little whirls have lesser
whirls And so on, to viscosity.
"I owed a magnificent day to the
Bhagavad-gita. It was the first of
books; it was as if an empire spoke to
us, nothing small or unworthy, but
large, serene, consistent, the voice of
an old intelligence which in another
age and climate had pondered and thus
disposed of the same questions which
exercise us." -RALPH WALSO EMERSON
"In God we Trust"
-UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
In 1913 Dr. Hans Reck found a modern
skeleton in the 500,000 year-od bed of
two of Olduvai Gorge in Africa.
Scientists now say it was origianlly
buried from a recent land surface in a
higher bed. But would primitive
gravediggers have penetrated the hard
limestone layer that existed between bed
2 and 5? The skull was placed in a
Brazilian museum but later mysteriously
disappeared...
-ORIGINS MAGAZINE
(The Record of the Rocks)
The bodies of organisms are complex
systems of interacting parts. To change
one species into another is not just a
simple matter of gradual remolding, as
a sculptor might remodel clay skulls.
Rather, it is likely to involve many
distinct, coordinated steps, as we see
when confronted with the task of
changing one electrical circuit into
another. This creates doubts about the
possibility of evolution by gradual
transformation...
- ORIGINS SCIENCE MAGAZINE.
Contradicting the standard picture of
human evolution over the past 2.5
million years, many fossils show the
presence of modern man throughout this
span of time in various levels of rock.
This raises the question of whether or
not the fossil record actually points to
evolution.
- ORIGINS SCIENCE MAGAZINE.
Of all the different forms of yoga,
the yoga of the Sound Current or
attunement with the holy Word
is by far the easiest, the safest, and
the speediest, yeilding results that
are verifiable with mathematical
precision. -book on Sikh religion.
"IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-
in-the-ground technique' to destroy the
competition..... IBM digs a big HOLE in
the ground and covers it with leaves.
It then puts a big POT OF GOLD nearby.
Then it gives the call, 'Hey, look at
all this gold, get over here fast.' As
soon as the competitor approaches the
pot, he falls into the pit" - John C.
Dvorak -
-It takes all sorts of in & out-door
schooling to get adapted to my kind of
fooling" - R. Frost -
"Confound these ancestors.... They've
stolen our best ideas!" - Ben Jonson -
Two friends met on the street after not
having seen each other for some time.
One of them was using crutches.
"Hello!" said the other man. "What's
the matter with you?"
"Street-car accident," said the man on
crutches.
"When did that happen?"
"Oh, about six weeks ago."
"And you still have to use crutches?"
"Well, my doctor says I could get along
without them, but my lawyer says I
can't."
"I shall have to give you ten days or
$20," said the judge.
"I'll take the $20, Judge," said the
prisoner.
A lawyer was cross-examining a witness.
He asked: "And you say you called Mrs.
Jones on May 2nd? Now will you tell the
jury just what she said?"
"I object to that question!"
interrupted the lawyer on the other
side.
There was nearly an hour's argument
between counsel, and finally the judge
allowed the question. "And as I was
saying," the first lawyer began again,
"on May 2nd you called on Mrs. Jones.
Now what did she say?"
"Nothing," replied the witness. "She
was not at home."
Judge - "What is this man charged
with?"èOfficer - "Intoxication, your honor."
Prisoner - "Judge, I'm as sober as you
are this minute."
Judge - "Pleads guilty - 10 days! Next