QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Josh Billings, Gaius Caligula , Douglas MacAyeal, GERALD LIEBERMAN, CHARLES DARWIN, KEN HILL, SIR WILLIAM CECIL DAMPIER WHETHAM, Guy Consolmagno, James D. Watson, Bill Cosby, Woody Allen, Peter Mere Latham, GERALD LIEBERMAN.

• There are a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
  – Josh Billings
  
  
• I am still alive!
  – Roman emperor Gaius Caligula (A.D. 12-41) as he was being stabbed by his own guards. They finished the job
  
  

• The iceberg shattered like a gracile wine glass being sung to by a heavy soprano.
  – Douglas MacAyeal, a University of Chicago geophysicist, describing the fate of a huge iceberg after it was hit by an Antarctic storm swell
  
  
• There's a continent unlike the rest;
  Only scientists think it the best.
  Why on Earth have they chosen
  A landmass so frozen?
  The ice is precise, they'll attest.
  unknown but I like it
  
  
• Why is it called a bust when it stops right before the part it is named after?
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• There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak. They are manners, morals and medicine. – GERALD LIEBERMAN
  
  
• I am not the least afraid to die.
  – CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882)
  
  
• If the brain were simple enough for us to understand it, we would be too simple to understand it.
  – KEN HILL
  
  
• But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence. – SIR WILLIAM CECIL DAMPIER WHETHAM
  
  
• Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which is a kind of paganism.
  – Guy Consolmagno , an astronomer at the Vatican observatory in Arizona and curator of the Vatican's meteorite collection
  
  
• One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
  –James D. Watson
  
  
• "I'm worried because we're in a time when cars can be heard coming down the streets, blasting (the "Nigger" word). People say (the word) like they say, 'Pass the salt.' People are going crazy."
  - Bill Cosby
  
  
• Science has conquered many diseases, broken the genetic code, and even placed beings on the moon. Yet when a man of 80 is left in a room with two 18-year-old cocktail waitresses, nothing happens. That's because the real problems never change.
  – Woody Allen
  
  
• Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. – Peter Mere Latham
  
  
• According to old Islamic tradition, houseflies carry poison on one wing, the antidote on the other. If a fly fell in your soup, conventional wisdom advised that you duck the entire fly under the soup's surface before removing it, thus ensuring that the poison and antidote would cancel each other out.
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• There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak. They are manners, morals and medicine.

  – GERALD LIEBERMAN

  
  
  

 

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