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The purpose of Physics 7A is to make the engineers realize that they're
not perfect, and to make the rest of the people realize that they're not
engineers.
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The rate at which a disease spreads through a corn field is a precise
measurement of the speed of blight.
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| Linux Science: 478 of 622 |
The reason that every major university maintains a department of
mathematics is that it's cheaper than institutionalizing all those people.
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The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or
give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn
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The Shuttle is now going five times the sound of speed.
-- Dan Rather, first landing of Columbia
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and
tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will
have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy... neither its pipes nor
its theories will hold water.
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The solution of problems is the most characteristic and peculiar sort
of voluntary thinking.
-- William James
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The solution of this problem is trivial and is left as an exercise for
the reader.
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The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.
-- Peer
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The speed of anything depends on the flow of everything.
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