Linux Science

Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem
in relation to a bigger problem.
                -- P.D. Ouspensky

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two,
opulence is when you have three -- and paradise is when you have none.
                -- Doug Larson

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy.  The question which divides us is
whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.  My own feeling
is that it is not crazy enough.
                -- Niels Bohr

We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his
own facts.
                -- Patrick Moynihan

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We can defeat gravity.  The problem is the paperwork involved.

We can predict everything, except the future.

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
                -- Sir Francis Bacon

We dedicate this book to our fellow citizens who, for love of truth, take from
their own wants by taxes and gifts, and now and then send forth one of
themselves as dedicated servant, to forward the search into the mysteries and
marvelous simplicities of this strange and beautiful Universe, Our home.
                -- "Gravitation", Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler

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