posted February 16, 2007 12:28 AM         

"I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting."
Isabel Burton

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. "
Douglas McGarel Hogg, Lord Hailsham

"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have."
Emile-Auguste Chartier

"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail."
Abraham Maslow

"Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.
If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
Howard Aiken

"Since when was genius found respectable?"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"I like the moment when I break a man's ego."
Bobby Fischer

"Everything that I did in life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for."
Earl Warren

"What is to give light must endure burning."
Viktor Frankl

"Some folk are wise, and some are otherwise."
Tobias Smollett

"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth."
Agnes Repplier

"Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth."
George Herbert

"They who drink beer will think beer."
Washington Irving

"Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time."
Dave van Ronk

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."
Joseph Pulitzer

"I have learned from an early age to abjure the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
Leonardo da Vinci

"My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tell you."
Benjamin Jowett

posted February 20, 2007 01:06 AM         

"The problem with scientific power you've used is it
didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read
what others had done and you took the next step. You
didn't earn the knowledge yourselves, so you don't take
the responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders
of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you
could, and before you knew what you had, you patented
it, packaged it, slapped in on a plastic lunch box, and
now you want to sell it."

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not
they could, that they didn't stop to think if they
should. Science can create pesticides, but it can't
tell us not to use them. Science can make a nuclear
reactor, but it can't tell us not to build it!"

"There's nothing that great about discovery.
(or)
What's so great about discovery? It's a violent,
penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you
call discovery I call the rape of the natural world!"

Malcolm ~ Jeff Goldblum's character in guess what movie

posted March 03, 2007 03:01 AM         

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change."
-- Jim Rohn