Sunday, February 26, 2012

line of the day

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doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and serve us again. but if to avoid the trouble of search we avail ourselves to the superior information f a friend , such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought , but borrowed it. -C.C. Colton

2.27.12
"the language of mathematics reveals itself unreasonably effective in the natural sciences ... , a wonderful gift which we neither understand nOr deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning" (Wigner 1960).

2-3-2012
Oh no! He's answering my question, better ask another before he answers it!
xanrry (youtube user on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar6Pd8TU3Dg&feature=g-vrec&context=G2031cbaRVAAAAAAAAAQ)

4-3-2012
cab driver: Actually I am from bangladesh.
Passenger: Are women hot there?
cab driver: Here is a picture of my wife.
passenger (after looking at the photo): A simple no would have sufficed, he muttered indistinctly.

7-3-2012
JBS haldane who was an atheist communist having dinner with the wife of the arch bishop of Canterbury. She asked him, "Mr. Haldane what do you conclude about the nature of the creator from your study of biology." And he turned to her and said,"Madam, an inordinate fondness of beetles."

19-6-2012
its not brain tranplant rather body transplant
man's gene made him kill. claims lawyer 
 

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