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Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (47 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (56 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A single fact can spoil a good argument.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (118 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (107 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (131 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

All probabilities are 50%. Either a thing will happen or it won't.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (126 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (123 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (122 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (130 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (124 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (119 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune-tellers take economists seriously.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (126 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (127 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (116 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts!

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (105 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (173 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Theft from a single author is plagiarism. Theft from two is comparative study. Theft from three or more is research.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Work and Recreation

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (120 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

There are no errors in this book, except this one.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (121 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (120 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (126 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

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