There’s a new blog-meme floating around: I’ve seen it at Good Math, Bad Math and Pharyngula among others. The idea is to create an account on The Quotations Page and go through adding quotations to your page until you have five quotations which capture the essence of YOU. Here are mine:
- The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)
- Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. John Archibald Wheeler, American J. of Physics, 1978, 46, 323
- Ignorance is not innocence but sin. Robert Browning (1812 – 1889)
- If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996)
- A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5×11 inch paper cannot be understood. Mark Ardis