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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