Selected Quotes

"If this isn't nice, I don't know what is "

--Kurt Vonnegut, In a lecture, available on YouTube

"For work, if you love that best... For education, for beauty, for art, for pleasure... For mumblety-peg, if that's where your heart lies. "

--John Bunker Gilbreth 1868-1924, Cheaper By The Dozen (1948) In reply to the question “But what do you want to save time for? What are you going to do with it?”

"We do not yet have (nuclear) fusion reactors. One day, quite soon, we may. "

--Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1980), Episode 8, aired 19801126

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. "

--George Bernard Shaw, Man and SupermaSuperman

"The first reaction to this work is that it is wrong. The second is that it is obvious. "

--Victor Weisskopf, Comment on the Bohm-Aharonov Effect in: Weisskopf, V. F., Selected Topics in Theoretical Physics, The Boulder Lectures in Physics III , Interscience, New York, 1961.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. "

--George Santayana, 1905, The Life of Reason

"Moses Pray: I've got scruples too, ya know. You know what that is... scruples? Addie Loggins: No, I don't know what it is but if you've got 'em, it's a sure bet they belong to somebody else! "

--Moses Pray, Paper Moon (1973)