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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe. Sometimes I think we're not. In both cases the thought is equally shocking.
Arthur C. Clarke

If only I had known, I would have become a watchmaker.
Albert Einstein
on his development of the atom bomb

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone.
Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

2000 BC: Here, eat this root
1000 AD: That root is heathen; Here, say this prayer
1850 AD: That prayer is superstition; Here, drink this potion
1940 AD: That potion is snake oil; Here, swallow this pill
1985 AD: That pill is ineffective; Here, take this antibiotic
2000 AD: That antibiotic is artificial; Here, eat this root

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Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Levenstein

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Stephen Wright

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."
Isaac Asimov