Some Favourite Sayings

Here are some bits and pieces that I have collected over the years - a very mixed lot. I reserve the right to add more as I find them. Enjoy!

"Science advances one funeral at a time." Max Planck

"The foolish are often in error, but never in doubt." Modern proverb

"When all is said and done, more is said than done." Aesop

“He who marries the spirit of the age is soon a widower.” Dean Inge

“If you don’t read the newspapers you are uninformed — if you do read the newspapers you are misinformed.” Mark Twain

"The problem with a quarrel is that it spoils a good argument." G. K. Chesterton

"When the observed facts come into conflict with a cherished theory, then it is so much the worse for the facts." Ernst Mach

"Everything we call real is made up of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet." Niels Bohr

“Heaven has a wall, a gate and a strict immigration policy. Hell has open borders. Let that sink in.” Published by Reggie McDaniel

"Human kind cannot bear very much reality." T.S. Eliot:

"The first moral obligation is to think clearly." Blaise Pascal

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Hanlon's Razor

"Science is a good servant but a bad master." Michael D. Aeschliman

"Religion without science is lame, but science without religion is blind." Albert Einstein.

Here are some of my own - not necessarily original:

You can't read while eating a grapefruit!

Immoral + cross = Immortal

Funny how all free thinkers seem to think alike.

Offense is more often taken than given.

Most of the cells in your body are not human!

For me He died, for Him I live!