Thursday, December 28, 2006

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
-- A. J. Liebling

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
-- Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face .... turned me over and said. Look ... twins!
-- Rodney Dangerfield

Things are only impossible until they're not.
-- Jean-Luc Picard, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
-- Vince Lombardi

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
-- Sir Winston Churchill

What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
-- Doctor Who

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, Clarke's first law

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
-- Woody Allen

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
-- Dame Rose Macaulay

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
-- Thomas H. Huxley

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home