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Today's quote

We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.
    --Jonathan Swift

Today's aphorists quote

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
    --Benjamin Franklin

Today's Jazz quote

I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.
    --Miles Davis

Today's funny quote

I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
    --Steven Wright

Today's philosophers quote

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
    --Voltaire

Today's witty quote

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.
    --Will Rogers

Quotes by scientists for "Science Friday"

What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
    --Richard Feynman 

God does not play dice with the universe.
    --Albert Einstein 

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10^12 to 1.
    --Ernest Rutherford 

I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos.
    --Albert Einstein 

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
    --Albert Einstein 

"Anything created must necessarily be inferior to the essence of the creator."
    --Albert Einstein 

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.
    --Albert Einstein 

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
    --Albert Einstein 

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
    --R. Buckminster Fuller 

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
    --R. Buckminster Fuller 

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
    --Niels Bohr 

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
    --Wernher von Braun 

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.
    --Richard Feynman 

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
    --Albert Einstein 

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.
    --Albert Einstein