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It is science that tells us that the tomato is a fruit. It is wisdom that keeps
us from adding it to a fruit salad.
	-- Unknown

"The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not
when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other."
	-- Sir Francis Bacon 

The world needs more people who understand basic physics. Really, the world
needs more people who understand basic anything. Physics is a good place to
start.
	-- k5 bunsen

The greatest conceit, and the greatest mistake, is to believe that your model
IS what is modeled.
	-- trhurler k5

In my drunken stupor, I think I want her touch, that her relief would be like
the solution to a Navier-Stokes equation, so unattainable yet so desperately
sought.
	-- The Filthy Critic

Humans are at least as numerous as pigeons, their brains are not significantly
costlier than pigeon brains, and for many tasks they are actually
superior.
	--Richard Dawkins

Can only time travel with machine at both ends...if I'm not mistaken, which
means that since we don't have one now, there isn't any machine to which to
travel, which would restrict time travel to be going to only those times from
which one could travel. I think it involves the time traveling entity moving
along the timeline of the time machine, but I'm not sure.
	-- k5 premchai21

... there is no notion of fitness that's logically prior to the particular
environment the organism has as an habitat. So even if you could show that
whatever trait used to be selected for is no longer adaptive, that shows
nothing about natural selection, but rather about the environment.
	-- k5 Estanislao Martínez
	(in response to a "natural selection of humans is broken" claim)

If the "Many Worlds" interpretation of Quantum Physics is true, you can actualy
do a bogo sort in about O(n) time. You first randomly sort the array using a
quantum algorithm. Then you check if it's sorted (this is the part that takes
O(n) time). If it's not sorted, destroy the universe.
	-- hardburn, http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2002/2/22/233741/405/46#46

I understand what an equation means if I have a way of figuring out the
characteristics of its solution without actually solving it.
	-- Dirac

Q. How many mathematicians does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. 1, he gives the lightbulb to 3 engineers, thus reducing the problem to a
   previously solved joke.

Whatever happened to the kid who eats the most marbles doesn't get to reproduce?
	-- George Carlin

Warning: Do not look directly into laser with remaining good eye.

Humans are merely animals with cell phones.
	-- e2

The EE is snuggling right up against the bosom of Mother Nature, and maybe
slipping her the tongue, while the CSer is sending her elegant sonnets and
maybe occassionally inviting the old gal into the parlor.
	-- k5 sigwinch

"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual
certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life -- so
I became a scientist.  This is like becoming an archbishop so you can
meet girls."
                -- Matt Cartmill

[On the grand unified theory:] It's like if you had a program in CVS and two
people checked it out. One person changed the database functions, and the other
person changed the user interface -- each in their local working directories.
Both of them work with the code in CVS, but they don't work so well with each
other. Seeking the Grand Unified Theory is really an effort to make the two
changes work together.
	-- k5 MisterBad

If it smells, it's chemistry. If it crawls, it's biology. If it doesn't work,
it's physics.

"A horrible little boy came up to me and said, `You know in your book The
Martian Chronicles?' I said, `Yes?' He said, `You know where you talk about
Deimos rising in the East?' I said, `Yes?'  He said `No.' -- So I hit him."
	-- attributed to Ray Bradbury

This universe shipped by weight, not by volume.  Some expansion of the contents
may have occurred during shipment.

Klein bottle for rent -- inquire within.

My Very Easy Mnemonic Just Sucks - Useless Now, Extra Planet.

"We have no fuel on board, plus or minus 8 kilograms," said one NEAR scientist.

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
	-- P. Erdos

"If I set here and stare at nothing long enough, people might think I'm an
engineer working on something."
	-- S.R. McElroy 

Seasame street was brought to you today by the letters M, I and T and the
number 2.71828182845904523536028747135266

If you do not believe in evolution, why are you worried about the
bird flu?