Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

[FizixFreak]

Ah, but Bohr was a good man, and Heisenberg became a Nazi... I'll stick with Bohr.

wow! i didn't knew that.

 

[Astronuc]

Question everything!

There are no dumb questions, only bad answers.

- some manager

 

[Tregg Smith]

When a woman politician called Dirty Harry an a hole or something like that he replied "you tend to bring that out in a person." This almost always works for me. I use it a lot.

 

[Lisa!]

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as war but as an act of self-defence against a homicidal maniac.

– George Orwell

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

Blow the golden horn of destiny found in a cave guarded by a cyclops at the end of the world.

[8 char]

 

[lisab]

[8 char]

That's a nice quote

Edit: lol...

 

[MoonlitFractl]

Ignorance is not bliss, eg.) science. ^^;

my Biology teacher told me this "Ever seen the word 'nowhere'? Ever turned it into the words
'now here?" ...for some reason I expect this to burst into flames... realllly... o_o,,

 

[BobG]

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"
Isaac Newton.

Probably the most beautiful quote by a physicist!

Interestingly, he made this comment as the postscript in a letter to a man he hated - Robert Hooke. Robert Hooke was practically deformed physically, having an ugly, dwarfish appearance.

The most humiliating insult is one that's obvious to everyone except its intended victim.

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

hello world

 

[Ivan Seeking]

A friend was complaining about the time it takes for progress on various projects in his company.

When most people would get out a stop watch, we get out a calendar.

He asked if I knew how many people work at his company. Answer: About half of them.

 

[Astronuc]

"People living in the late Pleistocene weren't stupid. They spent an awful lot of time avoiding being eaten, and one of the ways to do that is to stay away from big bears." - anthropologist Erik Trinkaus

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Fate-of-the-Cave-Bear.html#ixzz1K6xEvwLH

It's smart not to be eaten.

 

[ideasrule]

"Say not, 'Why were the former days better than these?' For it is not from wisdom that you ask this." -- Ecclesiastes, 2000 years ago

2000 years ago, it was already cliche to talk about the "good old days".

 

[OmCheeto]

He asked if I knew how many people work at his company. Answer: About half of them.

Is it improper to "Roll on the floor laughing, peeing ones pants, and having a heart attack", in the favourite quotes section?

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

The first is fine, the third is lethal.

 

[lisab]

The first is fine, the third is lethal.

What's the second?

 

[OmCheeto]

What's the second?

BananaGram Poetry!

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

What's the second?

peeing ones pants ... in the favourite quotes section?

That will get you banned.

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

I knew that!
...
I did not know that.

All scientific discussions can be summed up like this.

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

G01 - Now, as the air of General Discussion fills my lungs, I want to laugh at both the thread and myself.

 

[rolerbe]

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself
I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and
diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a
prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay
all undiscovered before me."
- Sir Isaac Newton

 

[Triple_D]

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Ronald Reagan

 

[SamirS]

I really like this one:

"Teach a man to reason, and he'll think for a lifetime." (as seen in Symphony of Science, said by Phil Plait)

Said in an anecdote by Richard Dawkins about a New Scientist Editor:

"Science is interesting, and if you don't agree, you can f*** off."

Ricky Gervais:

"If there is a god, why did he make me an atheist? That was his first mistake.

George Best:

"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars - the rest I just squandered."

 

[Misericorde]

"Misericorde: A dagger which in medieval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal." (Ambrose Bierce)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I'm completely in the dark and I like it that way. I'm used to it.

- a friend

 

[Darken-Sol]

i am who i am

 

[Misericorde]

"Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam." (Said by Cato The Elder after any speech, regardless of relevance to that speech)

 

[DaveC426913]

Corrected.

i yam who i yam

 

[Char. Limit]

"Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam." (Said by Cato The Elder after any speech, regardless of relevance to that speech)

For those who do not know Latin, the above says "furthermore, I think Carthage should be destroyed."

 

[Triple_D]

Corrected.

Originally Posted by Darken-Sol
i yam who i yam

One more time...

I yam what I yam.

 

[Misericorde]

For those who do not know Latin, the above says "furthermore, I think Carthage should be destroyed."

Oh, sorry about that, I forgot to include the translation. I witlessly posted an entire joke from other sites too, so maybe not an auspicious start here?

I do love the idea that the equivalent of a US senator or feudal lord could just say, "I think that place should be razed," after EVERY speech. I would have hated to be a Carthaginian at that time, I'll tell you!

Triple_D: I yam what I yam, "cause I eats my spinach" (Popeye)

"A hazug embert hamarabb utolérik, mint a sánta kutyát." "They catch up with a liar sooner than with a limping dog."
A Hungarian proverb.

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

This forum is fantastic for people trying to write fiction that doesn't utterly trample physics.

w00t.

That'll be my signature someday.

 

[DaveC426913]

One more time...

I yam what I yam.

:bows in deference:

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

we are consistently inconsistent. - rhody

 

[Borg]

A favorite of mine:

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

 

[confused????]

my favourite quote... i can resist anything...except temptation . oscar wilde

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

In one generation we have gone from extraterrestrial planets being a mainstay of science fiction, to the present, where Kepler has helped turn science fiction into today's reality. - Charles Bolden

 

[G037H3]

Umad? - 4chan to world

 

[ideasrule]

Umad? - 4chan to world

Urbandictionary's entry on this made me literally laugh out loud:

Possible response: "Yes, I mad, and if you weren't hiding behind an anonymous identity on the Internet, I'd find you and let you know just how mad I am."
Person 1: "Stop ****ing micspamming and hacking you ****ing dickcheese!"

Person 2: "Lol u mad?"

Person 1: "..."

(a few days later)

Person 2: " YOU KILLED MY FAMILY AND BURNED MY HOUSE DOWN! YOU *****!"

Person 1: "lol u mad?"

 

[Misericorde]

"A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to rouse the interest, but long enough to cover the essentials." -Ronald Knox

 

[OmCheeto]

If you remember, in high school there were always a couple of kids whose clothes were on crooked, whose glasses were really thick and hung sideways. Their hair was never right, and their clothes didn't match, and they looked like little lost souls wandering down the hallway. That was me.

---------------------------------
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OxTVxGhHFM

 

[Darken-Sol]

I am going to wipe man whom I have created off the surface of the earth, from man to domestic animal, to beast, and to flying creatures of the heavens, because I do regret that I have made them.

 

[Disconnected]

"In a flash of adrenaline I knew, absolutely knew, it could be just one thing: squid. Giant alpine squid."
Peter Croft's mind playing tricks on him on a midnight climb in the high Sierras.

 

[DaveC426913]

I am going to wipe man whom I have created off the surface of the earth, from man to domestic animal, to beast, and to flying creatures of the heavens, because I do regret that I have made them.

Um. Is this a quote...

... or is this just you thinking out loud?

Because if it is, perhaps I've underestimated your identity.

I'll put more in the plate on Sunday. I don't want to be wiped off the surface of the Earth please.

 

[Char. Limit]

Um. Is this a quote...

... or is this just you thinking out loud?

Because if it is, perhaps I've underestimated your identity.

I'll put more in the plate on Sunday. I don't want to be wiped off the surface of the Earth please.

Don't be a wimp! Take it like a man! Come on God, gimme what you got!

 

[Darken-Sol]

Don't be a wimp! Take it like a man! Come on God, gimme what you got!

this was a quote from god pre-flood genesis. i always think "what about the fish, its not fair."

 

[Char. Limit]

this was a quote from god pre-flood genesis. i always think "what about the fish, its not fair."

I stand by my statement.

 

[turbo]

I stand by my statement.

Ah! Then you're the one who bought up all the gopher wood at the local Home Depot!

 

[Darken-Sol]

"war is not about who is right, but who is left." i think this was bertrand russel but I'm to lazy to find out for sure.

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

Beware of quotes on the Internet. They may be inaccurate. - Abraham Lincoln

 

[khemist]

Beware of quotes on the Internet. They may be inaccurate. - Abraham Lincoln

LoL.

"Make unusual choices."