Fortune Quote #1308

Q: Why do Computer Scientists get Halloween and Christmas mixed up? A:
Because Oct. 31 = Dec. 25.

Fortune Quote #1307

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and
understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied
mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure
mathematicians.

Fortune Quote #1306

To mathematicians, solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists,
solutions are things that are still all mixed up.

Fortune Quote #1305

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than
about 10^12 to 1. -- Ernest Rutherford

Fortune Quote #1304

With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles
closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still
there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing
as progress. -- Ransom K. Ferm

Fortune Quote #1303

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute.
But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- and it's longer than any
hour. That's relativity. -- Albert Einstein

Fortune Quote #1302

What is research but a blind date with knowledge? -- Will Harvey

Fortune Quote #1301

What I've done, of course, is total garbage. -- R. Willard, Pure
Math 430a

Fortune Quote #1300

We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a
clever but highly unmotivated trick. -- Howard Anton, "Elementary
Linear Algebra"

Fortune Quote #1299

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. -- Sir Francis Bacon