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"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved
body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting
"...holy $hit...what a ride!"

Hunter S. Thompson

The best is finding two olives in your martini when you are hungry - johnny carson

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"it's the neck, it creaks under the weight of too much heavy thinking."

also from kerouac: "You can't fall off a mountain!"

That's one of my top 5 favorite lines from Dharma Bums I was just thinking about that line the other day too.

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Back in the saddle!

"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Yikes Natalie grammar

Anyways one from my mother, that I can't truely figure out why she would follow through with is:
I brought you into this world, and I can't take you out of it and make another one just like you.
I once asked her why she would make another one just like me if she was to take me out of this world, boy did i get a beating for that one

One from my High School Principal:
Now students on tomorrow....

And the last one, don't remember where I heard it:
Don't look at me in that tone of voice

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

It's a bush quote; the grammar error is intentional.

"The question is; are you still a master of your domain?"
-Jerry Seinfeld

yeah, nats quote is from george w bush. it was from the 2000 campaign, during which he also said "i know how hard it is to put food on your family", and "the vast majority of our imports come from overseas".

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you $50,000 for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul" Marilyn Monroe

"Be civil to all;sociable to many;familiare with few;
friend to one;enemy to none. Benjamin Franklin

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I know human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

"the vast majority of our imports come from overseas".


hahahaha that's classic.

A pessimist is never dissapointed

~ Sophie Ellis-Bextor ~ Dunno if its a fav though.. I also like quite alot of scary movie 3 quotes

Speaking of awesome movie quotes...

From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:

Mike Teavee [to Willy Wonka]: You don't know the first thing about science! First off, there's a big difference between waves and particles. Duh! Second, the amount power it would take to convert energy into matter would be like nine atomic bombs!

Willy Wonka [interrupting]: Mumbler!

[Mike Teavee shuts up]




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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

The two hardest things in life are success and failure

And ain't that true, in so many ways.

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

got chalk?





that would be the gymnast side of me...heck, life's short, tumble hard


On another note...this has always been a favorite of mine:

"God made me small so I could fit perfectly into your arms."


-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

two of my favorite albert einstein quotes:

"you cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war"

"do not worry about your difficulty in mathematics. i can assure you mine are much greater"

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

cup, one of the reasons i was having the discussions with the physicists about strings is because i was telling them that to me it seems like whenever nuclear physicists can't explain the way something works, they invent a particle that does whatever they've observed and then look for the particle later. they were telling me that strings are supposed to take care of this phenomenon, but that the only place everything unifies is in the immediate aftermath of the big bang. after that the temps are too cool to allow everything to unify.

and just to stay on topic:

"it depends on what your definition of "is" is"

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

I don't what I'm doing, and I don't know why I'm here, all I know is that the future will include
another beer... (the full monty)
/:'

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"it's the neck, it creaks under the weight of too much heavy thinking."

"anybody who thinks they understand quantum physics is wrong" -Bohr ;D

Not prentending that I understand the detailed schematics of string theory, I don't buy it. Vibrations in the 11th dimension (I thought that for the theory to coincide with current physics, the strings only vibrated on 11 dimensions--but I am probably wrong)as the basis of all matter? -Not to say that the small and large concepts makes physics any easier to comprehend. Bah, I hate physics anyways; especially electromagnetism. Screw that crap.

Last edited by Cup_of_Lifenoodles at 14-Aug-2005 16:31

one that i made up (as far as i know anyway )

"you can lead a horse to water, but you can't look in his mouth"


and shini, i've had conversations with a few physicists about strings and they told me that after 11 dimensions the math gets "really difficult"

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

"Lead me not into temptation...I can find it myself!"

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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
~ Mae West

I thought that Edison quote was "Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% persperation"...

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Das Herrgott w&#252;rfelt nicht

(Translation - God does not play dice)

- Albert Einstein, explaining his bafflement over Niels Bohr's explanation of quantum mechanics (he had good reason, not least the way in which quantum phenomena seemed to violate relativistic causality: even today, the greatest minds in physics have yet to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics).

Ooh, a good one. Nowadays, String Theory is said to bring together our macroscopic and microscopic worlds. Grand Unified Theory... Ah, it's a beautiful thing to unify everything. It apparently works mathematically (with the addition of about 7 more dimensions), but since strings are so small people aren't sure how to test the theory yet. Oh well. Perhaps it's one thing we weren't meant to know.:%)

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."
- Thomas Edison

"Build a man a fire, and you warm him for a day. Set a man on fire, and you warm him for the rest of his life."

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The aquarist is one who must learn the ways of the biologist, the chemist, and the veterinarian.

heres all of mine lol.

"If I'm not back in five minutes... wait longer!" - Ace Ventura

"All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work." - Steve Martin (Sgt Bilko)

"You know what the trouble about real life is? There's no danger music" - Jim Carrey

"Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes" - Buck Murdock (Air Plane 2)

"Thank you very little." - Ty Webb (Caddy Shack)

"We're talking mucho dinero here . . . and probably some American money, too." - Ty Webb (Caddy Shack 2)

"I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule." - Randal Graves (Clerks)

"I know I'm your hero." - Randal Graves (Clerks)

"Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week! No job is too big, no fee is too big!" - Dr. Peter Venkman (Ghost Busters)

"You face forward, or you face the possibility of shock and damage." - Brodie Bruce (Mall Rats)

"At last we meet, for the first time, for the last time." - Lone Star (Space Balls)

"Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!" - Bluto (animal House)

Fish tanks are an expensive addiction

This one is from the European Techno Band Scooter. Besides a good and fast beat, one of their songs contains a &#8220;statement&#8221; that might be borrowed from somewhere else. It is:

[font color="#C00000"]It&#8217;s nice to be important, but it&#8217;s more important to be nice![/font]

Ingo

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Proud Member of the New Jersey Aquatic Gardeners Club

Das Herrgott w&#252;rfelt nicht

(Translation - God does not play dice)

- Albert Einstein, explaining his bafflement over Niels Bohr's explanation of quantum mechanics (he had good reason, not least the way in which quantum phenomena seemed to violate relativistic causality: even today, the greatest minds in physics have yet to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics).



Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

"were gunna need a bigger boat"
jaws-

"There's method in his madness"
William Shakespeare

You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows
Bob Dylan

Someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent
When I paint my masterpiece
Bob Dylan

Choose life... But why do I want to do a thing like that?
Trainspotting

Badges? We don't need no stinking badges
Blazing saddles

"Fighting on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics - Even if you win, you're still a retard."

- Tim

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

"There is no remedy for love but to love more" - Thoreau

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Not really famous, but special to me anyway.

"Even though the distance between us is hard, I take you with me no matter where I go or what I do."

Also another one that I use to use a lot on profiles and such

"Death must be a beautiful thing or they wouldnt have saved it for last"

"The internet... They have that thing on computers now?"

-Homer Simpson

keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer.


~never negotiate out of fear, but never fear to negotiate.

Last edited by bettachris at 13-Aug-2005 12:36

Ya know, at first glance, the invent-a-particle motive does seem like inaccurate guesswork, but nuclear physics has really taken off in the last century, so I assume that they must have a general idea of what's going on. Bah, like I said, I hate physics. :[

Only 11 dimensions? Ah, that'll be heterotic string theory. If you want the hard stuff, go for bosonic string theory. That needs 26 dimensions.

Of course, strings only make sense as a physical construct (as opposed to a theoretical construct) if you also introduce the concept of D-branes.

Here you go - D-branes and bosonic string theory in one easy lesson.




Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

"When people show you who they are believe them"

Toni Morrison (?)

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~~~ My fish blow kisses at me all day long ~~~

I thought the superstring theory WAS the one that most current physicists are referring to. Suffice to say, none of us here are standing physics doctorates (my mother is, but she was classically trained and refuses to accept string theory), so I'll try and gather what information I can find on the subject.

Last edited by Cup_of_Lifenoodles at 15-Aug-2005 23:05

"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

-Dilbert

Blah oleta took mine

"It's always in the last place you look"

well, i have a bachelor's of science in physics, but that's a far cry from understanding it at a doctoral level

and cup, one of my former classmates was going on to higher levels of nucler physics, and he told me that there was a chart invented much like the periodic table of elements in which most of the known particles fit. some of the blanks in between are empty, but a couple particles have been "found" which fit the chart, so that is where the invent-a-particle method has its roots. i told him it still sounds like guesswork to me, and "justify your government grant" games and that's when we got into a deep discussion about strings with some doctoral students.

edit: i forgot to mention one of my favorite quotes, which lindy had as her signature:

if you get upset at someone, walk a mile in their shoes. then you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

Heh. That's pretty cool.

"That's fitting, because you fight like a milkmaid!"
-Guy Threepwood

"That's what I like about science. It's not math!" -My physics teacher

There's a great book called "The Hole in the Universe" by K.C. Cole that goes into the difficulties of uniting string theory with the theory of relativity.


I LOVE physics.