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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
 
Linux Science:  532 of 622

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...
 
Linux Science:  533 of 622

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.
 
Linux Science:  534 of 622

This place just isn't big enough for all of us.  We've got to find a way
off this planet.
 
Linux Science:  535 of 622

This universe shipped by weight, not by volume.  Some expansion of the
contents may have occurred during shipment.
 
Linux Science:  536 of 622

This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living, and hard
dying... but nobody thought so.  This was a future of fortune and theft,
pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it.
                -- Alfred Bester, "The Stars My Destination"
 
Linux Science:  537 of 622

Those who can, do; those who can't, simulate.
 
Linux Science:  538 of 622

Those who can, do; those who can't, write.
Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.
 
Linux Science:  539 of 622

... though his invention worked superbly -- his theory was a crock of sewage
from beginning to end.
                -- Vernor Vinge, "The Peace War"
 
Linux Science:  540 of 622

Three great scientific theories of the structure of the universe are the
molecular, the corpuscular and the atomic.  A fourth affirms, with
Haeckel, the condensation or precipitation of matter from ether -- whose
existence is proved by the condensation or precipitation ... A fifth
theory is held by idiots, but it is doubtful if they know any more about
the matter than the others.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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