| Q23 |
The continuity of space-time, which is technically assumed in physics, has nothing in its favour except technical convenience. It may be that the number of space-time points is finite, and that space-time has a granular structure like a heap of sand. Provided the structure is fine enough, there will be no observable phenomenon to show that there is not continuity. Theoretically, there might be evidence against continuity, but there could never be conclusive evidence in its favour. (B. Russell, Human Knowledge. Its Scope and Limits. London: Allen and Unwin, p. 309, 1966) |
| Q22 |
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work at work worth doing. (Theodore Roosevelt) |
| Q21 |
Everything is more simple than one thinks but at the same time more complex than one can understand. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) |
| Q20 |
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. (Anonymous) |
| Q19 |
A new scientific truth wins not because its opponents are convinced in its correctness and begin to see things clearly, but rather for the reason that the opponents gradually die out and a new generation assimilates that truth literally with the mother's milk. (Max Planck) |
| Q18 |
Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein) |
| Q17 |
You can't have a better tomorrow if you're thinking about yesterday all the time. (Charles F. Kettering) |
| Q16 |
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones that you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover. (Mark Twain) |
| Q15 |
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. (Paul Anderson) |
| Q14 |
If someone gave me eight hours to cut down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening the axe. (Abraham Lincoln) |
| Q13 |
But as artifices do not work with perfect accuracy, it comes to pass that mechanics is so distinguished from geometry that what is perfectly accurate is called geometrical; what is less so, is called mechanical. However, the errors are not in the art, but in the artifices. (Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica, 1686) |
| Q12 |
Noncontroversial is only that which is not interest to us. (H. Laube) |
| Q11 |
There is nothing more dangerous for new truth than old delusion. (W. Goethe) |
| Q10 |
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. (Gail Sheehy) |
| Q9 |
It's a poor person and a poor nation that sits down and cries because life isn't precisely what hey expected it to be. ... In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out. (Margaret Mitchell) |
| Q8 |
All wars are sacred ... to those who have to fight them... Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes... If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles. But so few people ever realize it. Their ears are too full of bugles and drums and the fine words from stay-at-home orators. (Margaret Mitchell) |
| Q7 |
There is a clear cut difference between perceived risk and actual risk. It's this difference that presents opportunities. (AGE, November 11, 2002) |
| Q6 |
Our material and spiritual world is so infinitely complex that the only way to its understanding lies with applying models, and this is the way used in practically all sciences about nature and society. (B.N. Zakhariev) |
| Q5 |
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement. (Bo Bennett) |
| Q4 |
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie Curie) |
| Q3 |
Failure isn't in not reaching your goal, but in having no goal to reach. (Benjamin Mays) |
| Q3 |
To reach the point that is unknown to you, you must take the road that is unknown to you. (St. John of the Cross) |
| Q2 |
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. (H.W. Wells) |
| Q1 |
The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite. (D. Hilbert) |
