From buddy Mon Jan 26 23:18:15 1995
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 14:03:20
Subject: quotes


Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
        --John Dewey

 -The important thing is never to stop questioning.
 -We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course,
powerful muscles, but no personality.
 -What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.
        --Albert Einstein

Don't ever take a fence down until you  know the reason it was put up.
        --G.K. Chesterton

OLTION'S COMPLETE, UNABRIDGED HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE
Bang!      ...crumple.
        --Jery Oltion

The difference between a rabbit and a rock is the information content, and the
difference between a living and a dead rabbit is in the availability or
usability of the information.
        --Dr. John A. Ball

To rebel against a powerful political, economic, religious, or social estab-
lishment is very dangerous and very few people do it, except, perhaps, as part
of a mob. To rebel against the "scientific" establishment, however, is the
easiest thing in the world, and anyone can do it and feel enormously brave,
without risking as much as a hangnail. Thus, the vast majority, who believe in
astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code
that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or
not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic about the bilge when a group
of astronomers denounces it.
        --Isaac Asimov

Even if the propeller had the power of propelling a vessel, it would be found
altogether useless in practice, because the power being applied in the stern
would be absolutely impossible to make the vessel steer.
        --Sir William Symonds - British Royal Navy, 1837

If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.
        --Kelvin Throop

Any fully matured science of ecology will have to grapple with the fact that
from the ecological point of view, man is one of those animals which is in
danger from its too successful participation in the struggle for existence.
        --Joseph Wood Krutch

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as
video in a single large American city in a single year.
Not all bits have equal value.
        --Carl Sagan

The religion that is afraid of science dishoners God and commits suicide.
        --Ralph Waldo Emerson

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
        --Kurt Vonnegut

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
        --H.G. Wells

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies
        --Honore de Balzac

We will rediscover a [New York City] river so extravagantly polluted that new
life forms will emerge from it spontaneously, demanding welfare and voting
rights.
        --Douglas Adams

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would
presumably flunk it.
        --Stanley Garn