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Re: Funny Sayings



How about "It ain't work if it's f_n (normal force)"?

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Robert Cohen; rcohen@po-box.esu.edu; http://www.esu.edu/~bbq
Physics, East Stroudsburg Univ, E. Stroudsburg, PA 18301

-----Original Message-----
From: cliff parker [mailto:cparker@CHARTER.NET]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:05 PM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: Funny Sayings


This is my thing. I collect quotes and sayings. I have them
arranged in
alphabetical order these are a few from my A - H list.
Anyone interested in
a more complete list let me know off list and I'll send it along.

1. A rolling stone gathers momentum.
2. If you are not part of the solution you are part of the
precipitate.
3. Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.
4. A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
5. A man convinced against his will is still of the same opinion.
6. Absolute zero is cool.
7. The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
8. Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.
9. All generalizations are false.
10. All science is either physics or stamp collecting. Ernest
Rutherford,
Winner Nobel prize chemistry!! (1908)
11. All that glitters has a high refractive index.
12. Black holes are where God is dividing by zero.
13. Bohr moved in atomic circles while Schrodinger waved and
Heisenberg
hesitated.
14. Entropy isn't what it used to be...
15. Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler.
Einstein
16. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
17. Gravity -- IT'S NOT JUST A GOOD IDEA; IT'S THE LAW!
18. Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things. -
Virgil (70-90
BCE)
19. He is so dense, light bends around him.
20. Conservative forces do no real work.
21. Heisenberg may have slept here.
22. Induction happens.
23. May the net force be with you.
24. "Accelerated" may mean going in circles.
25. Forces have their moments.
26. It takes an impulse to change momentum