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A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot read more
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying read more
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?
If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the read more
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Ita!0 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the read more
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very read more
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
