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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
-- Sagan
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The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four
forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and
bloody-mindedness.
-- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic"
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| Linux Science: 504 of 622 |
The University of California Statistics Department; where mean is normal,
and deviation standard.
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| Linux Science: 505 of 622 |
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be
done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
-- E. Hubbard
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| Linux Science: 506 of 622 |
The Wright Bothers weren't the first to fly. They were just the first
not to crash.
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| Linux Science: 507 of 622 |
Theory is gray, but the golden tree of life is green.
-- Goethe
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| Linux Science: 508 of 622 |
There *is* no such thing as a civil engineer.
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| Linux Science: 509 of 622 |
There are no data that cannot be plotted on a straight line if the axis
are chosen correctly.
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| Linux Science: 510 of 622 |
"There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers.
While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain."
-- Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800
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There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the
changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts.
Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's
science. Three: Be aware that you live in a malevolent Universe controlled
by Murphy's Law, sometimes offset by Brewster's Factor; that's engineering.
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