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Today's quote
When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattentions of one.
--Helen Rowland
Today's aphorists quote
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
--Benjamin Franklin
Today's Jazz quote
It bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. Its not. Its feeling.
--Bill Evans
Today's funny quote
When I was little, I went into a pet shop and they asked how big I'd get.
--Rodney Dangerfield
Today's philosophers quote
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
--Voltaire
Today's witty quote
DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed.
--Ambrose Bierce
Quotes by scientists for "Science Friday"
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
--Albert Einstein 
If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.
--Albert Einstein 
Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
--Albert Einstein 
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
--Albert Einstein 
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
--Albert Einstein 
The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.
--Ernest Rutherford 
We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.
--S. J. Gould 
I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
--Albert Einstein 
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
--Isaac Asimov 
Space and time are modes by which we think, not conditions under which we live.
--Albert Einstein 
Time travel stories are too much fun for them to be eliminated merely out of mundane considerations of impracticability, or even impossibility.
--Isaac Asimov 
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your tax-dollar will go further.
--Wernher von Braun 
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't.
--Ernest Rutherford 
Man belongs wherever he wants to go.
--Wernher von Braun 
A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself to give in the same measure as I have received.
--Albert Einstein 