Fortune Quote #1247

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert
Einstein

Fortune Quote #1246

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of
arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical
world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by
the use of the mathematics of probability. -- Vannevar Bush

Fortune Quote #1245

If I set here and stare at nothing long enough, people might think I'm an
engineer working on something. -- S.R. McElroy

Fortune Quote #1244

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert
Einstein

Fortune Quote #1243

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked
at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. --
Poul Anderson

Fortune Quote #1242

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of
reasoning. -- Plato

Fortune Quote #1241

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for
somewhere else. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

Fortune Quote #1240

They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they
also laughed at Bozo the Clown. -- Carl Sagan

Fortune Quote #1239

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre
minds. -- Albert Einstein

Fortune Quote #1238

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday,
and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday. -- William Bragg

Fortune Quote #1237

Five is a sufficiently close approximation to infinity. -- Robert
Firth

Fortune Quote #1236

Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by
the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees
in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted. --
Morris Kline

Fortune Quote #1235

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for
economists. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

Fortune Quote #1234

"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if
it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"

Fortune Quote #1233

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as
artificial flowers have to flowers. -- David Parnas

Fortune Quote #1232

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your
shoes. -- Mickey Mouse

Fortune Quote #1231

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

Fortune Quote #1230

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

Fortune Quote #1229

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -- Ernest
Rutherford

Fortune Quote #1228

All great discoveries are made by mistake. -- Young

Fortune Quote #1227

Algebraic symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking
about. -- Philippe Schnoebelen

Fortune Quote #1226

Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied: "You see, wire
telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New
York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And
radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive
them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

Fortune Quote #1225

A sine curve goes off to infinity, or at least the end of the
blackboard. -- Prof. Steiner

Fortune Quote #1224

Women reason with the heart and are much less often wrong than men who
reason with the head. -- DeLescure

Fortune Quote #1223

When one knows women one pities men, but when one studies men, one excuses
women. -- John Horne Tooke (1736-1812)

Fortune Quote #1222

When I was a young man, I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal
woman. Well, I found her -- but alas, she was waiting for the ideal
man. -- Robert Schuman

Fortune Quote #1221

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as
good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton

Fortune Quote #1220

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's
transparency. -- George Nathan

Fortune Quote #1219

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends. --
Benjamin Franklin

Fortune Quote #1218

The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner,
but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with [you] and possess that
quality of joy. -- Erica Jong

Fortune Quote #1217

The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She
loves it -- and that's all. It is thus that we should love. --
DeGourmont