Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v.3.02

Lots of Quotes

Richard Feynman - "I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."

John Kenneth Galbraith - "If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."

Doug Larson - "A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."

Sir William Bragg - "The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

Laurence J. Peter - "Everyone rises to their level of incompetence."

Horace Walpole - "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."

Thomas H. Huxley - "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."

Napoleon Bonaparte - "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

Socrates - "By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

David T. Wolf - "Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows."

Niels Bohr - "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."

E. V. Lucas - "I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them."

Eugene McCarthy - "Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important."

Thomas Pickering - "In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known."

Posted by Ezra at November 24, 2004 08:01 AM