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