A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ~ Walter Bagehot (1826-77)

Some things need to be believed to be seen. ~ Guy Kawasaki

If it's green or wriggles, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it doesn't work, it's physics... ~ Handy guide to science.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. ~ Albert Einstein.

He thought the formula for water was H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O (H-to-O)." ~ Annonymous

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true ! ~ Homer Simpson.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.~ Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson).

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. ~ Albert Einstein.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~ Annonymous

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic. ~ Henry Spencer.

Engineers think that equations approximate the real world.
Scientists think that the real world approximates equations.
Mathematicians are unable to make the connection. ~ Annonymous

Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things. ~ Virgil (70-19 BCE) Roman poet.

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel. ~ Claude Bernard (1813-78) French physiologist.

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss. ~ Democritus, (c. 420 BCE) Greek philosopher.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. ~ Hippocrates (c460-c.377 BCE) Greek physician.

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I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. ~ Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) Chemist

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it. ~ Elbert Green Hubbard (1865-1915)

Every experiment proves something. If it doesn't prove what you wanted it to prove, it proves something else.~ Annonymous

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Albert Einstien Quotes (1879-1955) U. S. physicist:

Newton, forgive me.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. ~ Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian physicist and astronomer.

Introductory physics courses are taught at three levels: physics with calculus, physics without calculus, and physics without physics.~ Annonymous

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. ~ Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) French mathematician.

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial. ~ Ernest Rutherford (1871- 1937) English physicist

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