Tuesday, June 12, 2012

``He multiplieth words...

“He multiplieth words without knowledge.”

---Elihu, Job 35:16 (King James Version of the Bible)

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

``To teach means scarcely anything more than...

“To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ...Therefore, he who differentiates well teaches well.”

---John Amos Comenius

Thursday, January 5, 2012

``You cannot enslave a mind....

“You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself, that values itself, that understands itself.”

---Wangari Maathai

Friday, December 16, 2011

``Even for the physicist...

“Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.”

---Werner Heisenberg

``Mind-Machine Interaction Research....

“Mind-Machine Interaction Research Center”

---Sign seen on a door at the University of Florida's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, circa 1999.

``Just fly your seat...

“Just fly your seat. Don't worry...The rest of the airplane will follow.”

---F. Carl Barnett (Owner and Aerobatics Instructor, Wings Jamaica Ltd.)

Monday, October 31, 2011

``Truth is ever to be found in simplicity...

“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things...”

---Sir Isaac Newton