Quotations

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

----- Herm Albright

My computer beat me at chess... so I beat it at kickboxing.

----- Demetri Martin

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

----- H.L.Mencken

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

----- Evan Esar

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

----- Niels Bohr

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

----- John Kenneth Galbraith

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

----- Woody Allen

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction.

----- Bertrand Russell

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

----- Plato

One should never elect as President someone who wants to be president.

----- Robert Ferguson

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

----- H.L. Mencken

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

----- Henry Cate VII

Reality is unreal.

----- Robert Ferguson

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but  'That's funny . . ."

----- Issac Asimov

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

----- Richard Feynman

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

----- Bertrand Russell