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Interesting Quotes
Posted: 2003-11-04 10:25pm
by Holtzman
During the French Revolution the famous scientist Laviosier (chemist) was told before they chopped his head off : The Revolution has no need for genius. Any one know any other qoutes of this sort?
Posted: 2003-11-04 10:28pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
"Now we are all sons-of-bitches."
- Dr. Kenneth Bainbridge, Director of the Trinity Test after while observing its detonation.
One of my favourites, and I personally think that it has a little more impact than Oppenheimer's "I am become Death..." statement..
Posted: 2003-11-04 10:33pm
by Holtzman
OO another one from the French Revolution. GO french people!!
"Show my head to the people for they do not see the like every day"
Wow chopping off peoples heads gets so many interesting things. Also
Rosseau (ah can't spell these french names): "All men are born free, but everywhere in chains"
I wonder why no one ever started a philosophy discussion thread recently.
Posted: 2003-11-04 10:34pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
"Because 90% of philosophy is wrong."
And that was from a philosophy professor...
Posted: 2003-11-04 10:37pm
by Holtzman
I care to disagree that 90 percent is wrong. Its more like 99.9. Almost everything that a philosopher says is absolute erm i will use "garbage". Its only a few things that really make a difference. I mean take rosseaus general will idea. The only thing that was actually used was the idea of direct democray applications. And we don't even use those...hehe..poor guys...too much wine...
Posted: 2003-11-04 11:51pm
by Agent Fisher
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those in times of grear crisis, stood by and did nothing-Dante
Posted: 2003-11-05 01:46pm
by Shortie
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation or creed.
-Bertrand Russell
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
-Susan Ertz
The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
-Anatole France
Posted: 2003-11-05 01:59pm
by Kuja
"Play the man, Master Ridley. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."
-Latimer to Ridley immediately before being burnt alive for heresy, 1555
"In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."
-Oppenheimer