Science & Math quotes
You know what seems odd to me? Numbers that aren't divisible by two.
"I can't explain this. I think it's obvious, though."
-- an MIT Algebraic Geometry professor, March 17, 2000
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was
standing on the shoulder of giants.
-- Isaac Newton
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants
were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson
In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.
-- Brian K. Reid
Life is complex. It has real and imaginary parts.
Math is like love; a simple idea, but it can get complicated.
-- R. Drabek
The number you have dialed is imaginary. Please multiply by 'i' and dial again.
Zenophobia: The irrational fear of convergent sequences.
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers
that many of my answers were meant ironically.
-- writer Calvin Trillin
Algebraic symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about.
A physics joke:
"Energy equals milk chocolate square"
Old mathematicians never die; they just lose some of their functions.
Mathematics: A tentative agreement that two and two make four.
-- Elbert Hubbard
My mother is a mathematician, so she knows how to induce good behavior.
"If I've told you n times, I've told you n+1 times...."
Here lies Harry,
Harry lives no more,
What Harry thought was H2O,
Was H2SO4.
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
-- Karl Popper
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,would it?
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) [German physicist]
Gravitation can not be held resposible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) [German physicist]
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the the universe.
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) [German physicist]
... Two most common elements in the universe: Hydrogen & Stupidity.