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

[DaveC426913]

"If you don't know what it is, it's best to leave it alone." - Anon, but very true for divers. There some things down there which can put a world of hurt on you.

Amen. Brushed up against one or two of em...

 

[OmCheeto]

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Found whilst searching for answers to the http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/FTL.html" .

 

[Astronuc]

Waste not, want not!

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/09/14/business/energy-environment/flare-ss.html

In the Bakken shale area of North Dakota, oil producers burn millions of cubic feet of natural gas as waste every day. Environmental advocates criticize the practice as wasteful and polluting, but state regulations are weak and federal ones are nonexistent.

 

[FizixFreak]

Newton died an 84 year old virgin

Just noticed it on the first page and this is surprisingly true!

In fact i think some one should really use this line as a signature

 

[OmCheeto]

Against stupidity, the gods themselves, contend in vain.

Also a good book.

 

[Borg]

Originally Posted by Friedrich Schiller
Against stupidity, the gods themselves, contend in vain.

Also a good book.

True dat.

 

[Demystifier]

What are your favourite quotes?

https://www.physicsforums.com/blog.php?b=1816

 

[DaveC426913]

https://www.physicsforums.com/blog.php?b=1816

Interestingly, this...

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein

...is exactly what we're arguing against, in https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3534922&postcount=71".

(A-wal doubts GR because he can't formulate a conceptual model of the event horizon of a black hole. We are arguing that the math models it, that we do not have a conceptual model for something so far outside our experience.)

 

[MrNerd]

One of my favorites is by Shakespeare:

"there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." (From Hamlet)

There's also another one about being less likely to break means it's a living hell trying to fix it, or something along those lines. I don't remember who said it, though.

 

[FizixFreak]

"stay hungry stay foolish...,i have always wished that for my self"

Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

 

[lisab]

"stay hungry stay foolish...,i have always wished that for my self"

Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

Nice.

 

[jobyts]

‎"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life." -Steve Jobs

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

I'm always up for a good debate on any subject whether or not I know much about it. - https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=3544768"

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

"What is a Hilbert Space?" - David Hilbert.

 

[Mathguy15]

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

 

[1MileCrash]

My all time favorite:

"I have walked this Earth for 30 years, and out of gratitude, wanted to leave some souvenir."

Van Gogh

:)

 

[Astronuc]

A lot of advertising is based on making people feel anxious, and feeling insecure.

Jean Kilbourne, EdD

 

[jambaugh]

My new favorite quote:

deceiving people is always more lucrative than enlightening them.

 

[lisab]

My new favorite quote:

It was instantly a classic!

 

[OmCheeto]

My new favorite quote:

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

My new favorite quote:

I respect Neal Stephenson's opinion, but he is simply wrong.

 

[Char. Limit]

I respect Neal Stephenson's opinion, but he is simply wrong.

I respectfully disagree. Most arguers on the internet (and I really would go so far to say "almost always") do fit the type he describes, in my opinion.

 

[Borek]

I respectfully disagree. Most arguers on the internet (and I really would go so far to say "almost always") do fit the type he describes, in my opinion.

I sometimes wonder if Jimmy makes notches on his keyboard each time he scores.

 

[OmCheeto]

I respectfully disagree. Most arguers on the internet (and I really would go so far to say "almost always") do fit the type he describes, in my opinion.

On second thought, I have to agree with Jimmy. Being a non-mathematician, I don't believe in infinity.

Wait! What's this? Mathematician's don't either?

http://www.mathsisfun.com/calculus/limits-infinity.html"

* We can't say what happens when x gets to infinity
* But we can see that 1/x is going towards 0

hmmm...

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing t, where t --> infinity.

hmmm...

Perhaps Neal was just dumbing it down, for people like me.

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reconnecting with my nerdish mathematical inner child

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I don't know who to attribute this one to.

Never argue with a fool. They will drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience!

 

[OmCheeto]

I don't know who to attribute this one to.

Never argue with a fool. They will drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience!

Jeez Louise!

In attempting to find the origin of that quote, I think I've discovered the 16 year old whose free t actually does --> infinity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Easter_Monkey"
Current number of articles: 3,787,303

This page has been vandalized: thrice.

 

[Adyssa]

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong

I watched a whole bunch of space films and doco's recently, "The Right Stuff", the HBO series, "From The Earth To The Moon" and a few others on Apollo and the shuttle missions, and I'm all sorts of awe-inspired.

I can't believe they did it, just amazing! :D

 

[lisab]

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

-- Will Rogers

Well it's a nice sentiment, at least

 

[Lancelot59]

Well it's a nice sentiment, at least

Depends on each person's definition of "fun" I guess.

 

[samuelarnold]

"Catch the vision, smell the dream. Make toast and then put it in your anorak. Yes! I’m the only comedian ever who drinks Perrier, it’s a bit sad innit? "