Adages, Quotes
Quotes
Science progresses one funeral at a time. - Max Planck
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important. - Dwight Eisenhower
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin
One of the greatest commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority.' ... Too many such arguments have proved too painfully wrong. Authorities must prove their contentions like everybody else. - Carl Sagan
The future is already here -- it's just not evenly distributed. - William Gibson
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants. - Louis Brandeis (on transparency)
All models are wrong, but some are useful. - George E. P. Box
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. -Henry Ford
E pur si muove (And yet it moves) - Galileo Galilei
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion - Francis Bacon
What we need are notions, not notations. - Gauss
If I want the door to turn, the hinges must stay put. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
We don't know who discovered water, but we are certain it wasn't a fish. - John Culkin
Good mathematicians see analogies between theorems; great mathematicians see analogies between analogies. - Stefan Banach
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. - Albert Einstein
Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made. - John Godfrey Saxe
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Measures are more than a creation of society, they create society - Ken Adler
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well. And if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them. - George Orwell
volatility is sonly downside deviation. Upside deviation is called performance - Paul Isaac, Arbiter Partners
The worst scientist is he who is not an artist; the worst artist is he who is no scientist. - Armand Trousseau
The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. - Lily Tomlin
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. - Alan Turing
Adages
- The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.
- No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
- If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
- If it can't be measured, it becomes politics.
- Everybody's business is nobody's business.
TV
You know what you do with tough cookies, don't ya? You dip 'em in milk. - Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis), Ted Lasso
...the only person who wants to live to a hundred is a ninety-nine year-old anyway. - Earl Stone (Clint Eastwood), The Mule