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David — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:44:44 +0000

Great improvisers are like priests. They are thinking only of their God. – Stéphane Grappelli

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David — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:43:42 +0000

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, it’s a habit. – Aristotle

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David — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:37:42 +0000

Science is a lot like sex. Sometimes something useful comes of it, but that’s not the reason we’re doing it. – Richard Feynman

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David — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:28:37 +0000

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. – Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

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David — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:49:10 +0000

It is to me a new and consolatory proof that wherever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, January 8, 1789

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David — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:31:36 +0000

If academic research is not devoted to finding the truth, it is a form of propaganda, and not necessarily to be preferred to other forms, much cheaper and perhaps more persuasive. – Conrad Russell (Academic Freedom. London: Routledge. 1993)

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David — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:30:22 +0000

If they do that with marks and grades, should they be trusted with experimental data? – Harry Erwin, PhD

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David — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:17:13 +0000

You can prove anything if you make up your data. – Jerry Pournelle

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David — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:55:38 +0000

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. – G. K. Chesterton