Lab Period Quotes
- Horace (65-8 BCE)
- Dum loquimur, fugerit invida Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
(While we’re talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future.)
- Virgillius (70-19 BCE)
- Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus.
(But meanwhile it is flying, time is flying that cannot be recalled.
- Nin, Anais (1914-1977)
- I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
- Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved
- Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974)
- We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye…. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
- Horace (65-8 BCE)
- Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
[It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.]
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
- I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
- Dr. William Menninger (1893-1990)
- Signs of Emotional Security
1. Ability to deal constructively with reality.
2. Capacity to adapt to change.
3. Few symptoms of tension and anxiety.
4. Ability to find more satisfaction in giving than receiving.
5. Capacity to consistently relate to others with mutual satisfaction and helpfulness.
6. Ability to direct hostile energy into constructive outlets.
7. Capacity to love.
- Ann E. Hossler
- My world is made meaningful not by what I can evaluate and define, but by what I can appreciate and adore. I find there is a profound difference in what I find interesting and what I find important.
[Sacred Journey, June 2004]
- Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
- I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
- Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1861-1922)
- In an examination, those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
- If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
[from a letter to Robert Hooke, 1676]
- Werner von Braun (1912-1977)
- Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- R.G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)
- In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.
- Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974)
- Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast on nature.
Universities Quarterly (1956) vol. 10, no. 3, p. 252]
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
- Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
[from Sherlock Holmes' The Boscombe Valley Mystery]
- John Tierny
- This is the remarkable paradox of mathematics: no matter how determinedly its practitioners ignore the world, they consistently produce the best tools for understanding it.
- Albert Einstein (1874-1955)
- As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
- There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
[in Mark Twain's (1835-1910) Autobiography]
- "Homer the Vigilante", written by John Swartzwelder
- Kent Brockman: "Mr. Simpson, how do you respond to the charges that petty vandalism such as graffiti is down eighty percent, while heavy sack-beatings are up a shocking nine hundred percent?"
Homer Simpson: "Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forty percent of all people know that."
[The Simpsons, Season 5, Episode 11]
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- The sage as astronomer. - As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you" you lack the eye of knowledge.
[Beyond Good & Evil, aphorism #71, trans. by Walter Kaufmann]