Linux Science

There's a whole WORLD in a mud puddle!
                -- Doug Clifford

There's no future in time travel.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking
about.
                -- John von Neumann

They don't know how the world is shaped.  And so they give it a shape, and
try to make everything fit it.  They separate the right from the left, the
man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They
only want to count to two.
                -- Emma Bull, "Bone Dance"

Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other.

This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough
hunchbacks.

This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers.  The
spark-gap is mightier than the pen.  Democracy will not be salvaged by men
who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.
                -- Lancelot Hogben, Science for the Citizen, 1938

This is the theory that Jack built.
This is the flaw that lay in the theory that Jack built.
This is the palpable verbal haze that hid the flaw that lay in...

This isn't true in practice -- what we've missed out is Stradivarius's
constant.  And then the aside: "For those of you who don't know, that's
been called by others the fiddle factor..."
                -- From a 1B Electrical Engineering lecture.

This place just isn't big enough for all of us.  We've got to find a way
off this planet.