QUOTES

Lewis Carroll "I wish you wouldn't keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy!" "All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!" - Alice in Wonderland "Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "You'd generally get to somewhere else--if you ran very fast for a long time as we've been doing." "A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that." - Through the Looking Glass The Queen bawled out "He's murdering the time! Off with his head!" - Alice In Wonderland     Mark Twain "A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain." "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." "An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before." "Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough." "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." "I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him." " It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it." "In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language."     Issac Newton "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent." "Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy." "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."     Albert Einstein "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith." "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." "To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself." "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." "At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice."     Richard Feynman "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." "Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong." "There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers." "We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on." "Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?" "Until you practice it, you know nothing." "What I cannot create, I do not understand" Stephen Crane "A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." " "Every sin is the result of collaboration."