Quote of the Day 20/3/13

“We often frame our understanding of what the space telescope will do in terms of what we expect to find, and actually it would be terribly anticlimactic if in fact we find what we expect to find. … The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to […]

Quote of the Day 13/3/13

“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.” – Niels Bohr

Quote of the Day 11/3/2013

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quote of the Day: 10/3/2013

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. – Arthur C. Clarke (1917 – ), Clarke’s first law

Quote of the Day 9/3/13

On the sixth day, God created the platypus. And God said: let’s see the evolutionists try and figure this one out.

Quote of the Day 8/3/2013

“In mathematics, you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.” — John von Neumann

Quote of the Day 7/3/2013

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.” – Mary Kay Ash

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“All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.” – John Desmond Baernal (Irish physicist, 1901-1971) in a Lecture at Birkbeck college, University of London, 1960.”

Quote of the Day 1

“The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.” – Richard Dawkins (English biologist,1941-) in The Blind Watchmaker (1986)