| QiScorpion
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| 558685. Sat May 23, 2009 12:48 pm |
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| Davini994 wrote: | Just picked this very nice quote up:
| Guardian wrote: | | Dirac once asked Heisenberg why he danced and got the unsurprising answer that it was a pleasure to dance with nice girls. Farmelo reports: "After about five minutes of silence, he said: 'Heisenberg, how do you know beforehand that the girls are nice?'" |
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you read the New Scientist aicmfp :P |
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| costean
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| 563842. Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:01 pm |
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Something I read today which rather amused me:
| Quote: | | There is only one race greater than the Jews, and that is the Derby. |
Sir Victor Sassoon, 3rd Bt (Businessman) |
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| Susannah Dingley
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| Davini994
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| 572561. Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:31 am |
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| Quote: | | Are you sure you want to go ahead with this, old chap? |
Prince Phillip to president Kenyatta during Kenya's independence in 1963, as the Union Jack was lowered. |
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| Davini994
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| 591248. Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:29 pm |
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| pliny The Elder wrote: | | An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. |
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| Bondee
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| 593065. Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:28 am |
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| Davini994 wrote: | | pliny The Elder wrote: | | An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. |
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Or, as Lemmy once said...
"The chase is better than the catch." |
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| zomgmouse
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| 593859. Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:34 am |
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| Stephen Fry wrote: | | LSD reveals the whatness of things, their quiddity, their essence. The wateriness of water is suddenly revealed to you, the carpetness of carpets, the woodness of wood, the yellowness of yellow, the fingernailness of fingernails, the allness of all, the nothingness of all, the allness of nothing. For me music gives access to every one of these essences of existence, but at a fraction of the social or financial cost of a drug and without the need to cry 'Wow!' all the time, which is one of LSD's most distressing and least endearing side-effects. |
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| zomgmouse
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| 599384. Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:36 am |
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| Horace Walpole wrote: | | The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel. |
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| MR.PASTMASTER
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| 599421. Sat Aug 15, 2009 1:16 pm |
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How apt:
Mark Twian wrote:
| Quote: | | The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. |
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| cherrycoke
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| 599705. Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:08 am |
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| Quote: | | If you need music on the beach, you're missing the point. |
1001 Rules for my unborn son.
Although i would like to upgrade "on the beach" to "by the sea". The amount of times i've been out on a dive boat and the waves are gently lapping at the hull and all you can hear is the sound of the sea with the occasional gull and the idle chatter of fellow divers, then some wanker whips out his iPieceOfDefecation with some crappy, tinny speakers and decides to 'improve the mood' with some 'banging drum 'n' house'.
I have on occasion, had to replace speakers that i've thrown overboard. |
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| zomgmouse
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| 599849. Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:07 am |
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| Samuel Johnson wrote: | | Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed. |
Reading Samuel Johnson's quotes is a refreshing and thoroughly enjoyable diversion. |
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| Celebaelin
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| 600946. Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:58 pm |
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| Quote: | Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
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Not exactly original but the quote I had in mind earlier this evo.
| Quote: | | Johnson relied on a unique form of rhetoric, and he is well known for his "refutation" of Bishop Berkeley's immaterialism and his claim that matter did not actually exist but only seemed to exist:[196] during a conversation with Boswell, Johnson powerfully stomped a nearby stone and proclaimed of Berkeley's theory, "I refute it thus!"[192] |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson
Which doesn't seem like a great argument but at the very least carried the point at the time. |
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| Jenny
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| 600950. Tue Aug 18, 2009 4:03 pm |
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian (1892-1971) |
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| zomgmouse
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| 601182. Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:32 am |
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| Samuel Johnson wrote: | | Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. |
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| Ian Dunn
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| 612198. Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:34 am |
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Frankie Howerd's last words:
| Quote: | | Well, I'm just going to have a little lie down before I do the journey in the car to Somerset. |
Source |
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