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Re: Funny Sayings



On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:24:52 -0500 Ludwik Kowalski
<kowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU writes:
Keep adding and reediting (to show sentences only). I will stop
editing because it takes too much time. Can somebody take over
this task? Please. Otherwise, those who add messages should
edit them as below. It is very simple to do. Use the cut and
paste method to insert the sequence into your reply <instead
of pressing the reply which generates triangular brackets and
add your message on top. One line per saying in this thread.
Ludwik Kowalski

48) What part of know don't you understand?
47) Chance flavors the prepared mind.
46) Announcements of new perpetual motion machines get much hush.
45) A rolling stone gathers momentum.
44) If you are not part of the solution you are part of the
precipitate.
43) Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.
42) A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
41) A man convinced against his will is still of the same opinion.
40) Absolute zero is cool.
39) The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
38) Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.
37) All generalizations are false.
36) All science is either physics or stamp collecting. (Ernest
Rutherford, 1908)
35) All that glitters has a high refractive index.
34) Black holes are where God is dividing by zero.
33) Bohr moved in atomic circles while Schrodinger waved and
Heisenberg hesitated.
32) Entropy isn't what it used to be...
31) Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler.
Einstein
30) Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
29) Gravity -- IT'S NOT JUST A GOOD IDEA; IT'S THE LAW!
28) Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things. - Virgil
(70-90 BCE)
27) He is so dense, light bends around him.
26) I respond to gravity, and to its opposite, comedy.
25) "It ain't work if it's f_n (normal force)"?
24) He that complies against his will / Is of his own opinion
still.
23) 300,000 km per second -- It's not just a good idea, it's the
law.
22) It's bad luck to prove things that aren't true.
21) To first order, almost everything is linear.
20) Almost everything is horizontal at the top.
19) No matter what you're doing, you can always do it wrong.
18) Throw physic to the dogs: I'll none of it. Macbeth. Act V, scene
3.
17) His progress is proportional to the square root of time. (i.e.
it's completely random)
16) Managing researchers is like herding cats.
15) We know a little about light but almost nothing about dark.
14) The speed of light comes too early in the morning.
13. Newton's Laws Strictly Obeyed (in most reference frames)
12. V = (delta)d/(delta)t kills
11) It's hard to take a coherent view of chaos.
10) Light is a subject that physics are [is?] very much in the dark
about.
9) Quantum Ducks go Quark Quark.
8) Absolute zero is OK.
7) Conservative forces do no real work.
6a) If Heisenberg did indeed sleep here, we have no idea how fast
asleep he was.
6) Heisenberg may have slept here.
5) Induction happens.
4) May the net force be with you.
3) "Accelerated" may mean going in circles.
2) Forces have their moments.
1) It takes an impulse to change momentum.