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Alfonso X (The Wise)
If the Lord Almighty had consulted (with) me before embarking on Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.


Norwood Russell Hanson 1924-1967

There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball.

Poul Anderson 1926-
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you look at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

Odgen Nash 1902-1971
Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

Anon.
The Three Laws of Thermodynamics (Restated)
  1. You cannot win.
  2. You cannot break even.
  3. You cannot get out of the game.

Jules Henri Poincaré 1854-1912
Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more science than a heap of stones is a house.

Heraclitus c.535-c. 475 B.C.
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Dixie Lee Ray 1914-
The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think science can do everything, and those who are afraid it will.

Joseph Roux 1834-1886
Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know.

George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
All problems are finally scientific problems.

Ernst Werner von Siemens 1816-1892
To measure is to know.


C. J. Overbeck  
Time is that great gift of nature which keeps everything from happening at once.

Richard Purdy Wilber 1921-
All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of what we know.
 
 

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