Quotable Quotes

[Major]

 

[drron]

Democracy is not about getting everyone to think alike, but about getting people who think differently to act alike.
Walter Lippmann

 

[JohnM]

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. - Richard Feynman

 

[TheRealTMA]

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. - Richard Feynman

Um. LIke most of these supposed simple desk calendar quotes, maybe a Feynman sentiment but not historical fact unfortunately.

Closest quote apparently is "You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live, not knowing, than to have answers which might be wrong.”

Talk:Richard Feynman - Wikiquote

en.wikiquote.org

 

[JohnM]

Um. LIke most of these supposed simple desk calendar quotes, maybe a Feynman sentiment but not historical fact unfortunately.

Closest quote apparently is "You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live, not knowing, than to have answers which might be wrong.”

Talk:Richard Feynman - Wikiquote

en.wikiquote.org

And who said it was that Richard Feynman?

 

[TheRealTMA]

And who said it was that Richard Feynman?

Ah David Feynman from PERth. OK!

 

[JohnM]

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.​

- HG Wells

 

[SYD]

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.​

- HG Wells

and Nightmares straddle past, present and future! (especially travel related!)

 

[Bundy Bear]

 

[Hvr]

 

[p--and--t]

Not sure if this one has been posted before

 

[Jacques Vert]

Life is like a sewer; what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. Tom Lehrer.

 

[p--and--t]

TBH I have t looked back through 51 pages to see if posted before, but I like this one

 

[marki]

Well put !! The little one is 1st mentally and physically. However I feel sorry for the 1st winner something is not clicking.

 

[JessicaTam]

"Rapid unscheduled disassembly."

Official description of today's SpaceX explosion.

 

[CMA222]

"Rapid unscheduled disassembly."

Official description of today's SpaceX explosion.

Is that not the the description of the USA for the next 4 years ?

 

[SYD]

"Rapid unscheduled disassembly."

Official description of today's SpaceX explosion.

“Energetic disassembly” has been a phrase used for some time!

 

[burmans]

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Is that not the the description of the USA for the next 4 years

Too true, and most of us outside the country see this so clearly. Yet internally they seem to be wilfully blind.

 

[Sprucegoose]

"Rapid unscheduled disassembly."

Official description of today's SpaceX explosion.

The chilling part is 'unscheduled'

 

[drron]

There is nothing new.