[Harry Nelson]
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
or: Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.
William of Occam
Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.
Ernest Rutherford
One day, Sir, you may tax it.
Faraday, in response to British Prime Minister
Gladstone's question, `What
good is electricity?'.
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot
be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman
There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out
of experimentation.
Leonardo da Vinci
What I would do is turn off the machine,
pull out the rod real fast, and put my eye up to the hole
as fast as I could, so I could see---nothing. The
vacuum. Before the air rushed in.
Robert Rathbun Wilson, describing his experiments
to `see' the vacuum inside an early Berkeley cyclotron. Often,
he got a black eye.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great.
Mark Twain
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human
species the weak not only survive but often
triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks
energies far more formidable then those mobilized
by an ordinary struggle for existence.
Eric Hoffer
In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those
who cannot tell.
Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not
break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching
from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and
hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of
the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better
angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.
In giving freedom to the slave,
we assure freedom to the
free--honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.
We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope
of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail.
The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just--a way which, if
followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever
bless.
Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862.
Fondly do we hope--fervently to we pray--that this mighty
scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills
that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the
bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil
shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the
lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was
said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said
``the judgements of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether''
Abraham Lincoln,
Second Inaugural Address March 4, 1865
[Harry Nelson]
hnn@charm.physics.ucsb.edu, 3/12/97