While I've just begun this page, I hope it will turn into a collection of some of my favorite thoughts of others....

• EDUCATION
  • What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. (Bertrand Russel)
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• SCIENCE
  • If all experiments turned out as we intended, we mnight as well not be doing experiments (Lewis Thomas)
  • Science is imagination constrained by data (?)
  • There are never any unsuccessful experiments. (Claude Bernard)
  • The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both use trial and error, the amoeba dislikes erring, while Einstein is intrigued by it (Karl Popper)
  • We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about "and." (J Arthur Eddington)
  • The essence of science is to discover identity in difference (F.S. Merwin)
  • A good chemical article is a work of art: a man-made abstraction of chemical activity which creates an emotional or aesthetic response in its readers. (Roald Hoffman)
  • Chemistry is not thta different from romance - we approach both with a piecewise reliable set of images (Roald Hoffman)
    
• LIFE
  • The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marval of DNA, Without it, we would still be anaerovbbic bacteria. (Lewis Thomas)
  • Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. (Voltaire)
  • Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things of rationality. (Bertrand Russel)
  • Strive for simplicity., but learn to mistrust simplifications. (A. N. Whitehead)