If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner
Friday, September 26, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. " - E
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. " - E
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
"It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom." -Einstein
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
"It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiousity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom"
- Einstein.
- Einstein.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
- Kilgore Trout
- Kilgore Trout
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Black Hole? Dooms Day?
The advantage of ridiculing any prophecy about the destruction of this world is, you will always be the winner if there is one, or else there won't be anyone to even talk about it. It's a bit unfair, but so is life anyway.
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
This explains something
I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. - George Burns
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Not me, Einstein said it.
"I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts."
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
A Wish
"May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have. "
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