Humor: Best of Fortunes for Monday December 26, 2005

Lackland's Laws: (1) Never be first. (2) Never...
Lackland's Laws: (1) Never be first. (2) Never be last. (3) Never volunteer for anything

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced...
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of -- Wheeled and soared and swung High...

All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and...
All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it. -- Richard P. Feynman

Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights,...
Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc., for granted, hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these things, which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in. Then along came the first...

An American scientist once visited the offices of the great...
An American scientist once visited the offices of the great Nobel prize winning physicist, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen. He was amazed to find that over Bohr's desk was a horseshoe, securely nailed to the wall, with the open end up in the approved manner...

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine,...
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. -- James Michener, "Space"