Add some fortunes and re-order the Feynman problem solving algorithm.

Thanks to gsutter for the quotes.

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Thomas Gellekum 2002-04-24 12:15:00 +00:00
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@ -16957,6 +16957,15 @@ For a light heart lives long.
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For adult education nothing beats children.
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For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and
women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant
religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith.
The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the
known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to
prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to
misery hereafter. The few have said "Think". The many have said "Believe!"
-- Robert Ingersoll, "Gods"
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For an idea to be fashionable is ominous,
since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
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@ -30612,6 +30621,9 @@ Many people resent being treated like the person they really are.
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Many people write memos to tell you they have nothing to say.
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Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.
-- Bertrand Russell
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Many receive advice, few profit by it.
-- Publilius Syrus
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@ -31081,6 +31093,10 @@ Men live for three things, fast cars, fast women and fast food.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it
from religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal, "Pensées", 1670
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Men never make passes at girls wearing glasses.
-- Dorothy Parker
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@ -32549,6 +32565,7 @@ It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
-- Robert Heinlein
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Never use "etc." -- it makes people think there is more where
there is not or that there is not space to list it all, etc.
@ -37728,12 +37745,6 @@ Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature
cannot be fooled.
-- R.P. Feynman
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The Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm:
(1) write down the problem.
(2) think very hard.
(3) write down the answer.
--Murray Gell-mann
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Really?? What a coincidence, I'm shallow too!!
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Reappraisal, n:
@ -40541,6 +40552,11 @@ Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy
have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
-- Martin Luther
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Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is
none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities,
sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.
-- Murray Gell-Mann, "Quark and the Jaguar"
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Supervisor: Do you think you understand the basic ideas of Quantum Mechanics?
Supervisee: Ah! Well, what do we mean by "to understand" in the context of
Quantum Mechanics?
@ -40587,10 +40603,6 @@ Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest
men in national government too.
-- Richard M. Nixon
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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are
dishonest men in national government too.
-- Richard Nixon
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"Surely you can't be serious."
"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
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@ -42352,6 +42364,12 @@ anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their
husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism
and become lesbians."
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The Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm:
(1) write down the problem.
(2) think very hard.
(3) write down the answer.
-- Murray Gell-Mann
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The Fifth Rule:
You have taken yourself too seriously.
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@ -45697,6 +45715,10 @@ The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.
The whole of life is futile unless you
consider it as a sporting proposition.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always
so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell
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The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
-- Peter Beard
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