Linux Science

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

"We don't care.  We don't have to.  We're the Phone Company."

We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.

We don't know who it was that discovered water, but we're pretty sure
that it wasn't a fish.
        -- Marshall McLuhan

We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids?
                -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission