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• Quote #204 From a long view of the history of mankind - seen from
  ay, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics....
• Ten thousand years from now, the only story this civilization will tell will be in its junk piles- so observe what is important!
  -- Richard N. Farme...
• The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn.
  -- Earl Warren That men do not learn very much from history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach....
• Two things are certain about science. It does not stand still for long, and it is never boring.
  Oh, among some poor souls, including even intellectuals in fields of high scholarship, science is frequently misperceived....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• Exhaustive Methylation: A marathon event in which the participants methylate until they drop from exhaustion.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on.
  Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas atoms....
• Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
  -- Robert G. Ingersoll, 19th Century lawye...
• History, n.: Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
  I know people who can't even learn from what happened this morning....