Posts tagged "totd":

Smarts

“You’re not smart enough to tell me how to live.”—Kathy Shaidle

Expertise

“Nobody is an expert on the future.”—Matt Linderman

Improvisation

“Great improvisers are like priests. They are thinking only of their God.”—Stéphane Grappelli

Habit

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

Sex and Science

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

Commas

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

Trust

“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

Research

“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)

Data

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

Proof

“You can prove anything if you make up your data.”—Jerry Pournelle

Fallacy

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”—G.K. Chesterton