Krentenbol Quotes & Sayings

A lottery is a tax on stupidity. — Ambrose Bierce

If you want to win this argument with Dad, look in chapter two of the first book of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. There's a quote there about how philosophers say a great deal about what science absolutely requires, and it is all wrong, because the only rule in science is that the final arbiter is observation - that you just have to look at the world and report what you see. Um ... off the top of my head I can't think of where to find something about how it's an ideal of science to settle things by experiment instead of arguments - — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Once I was a stupid girl; now I am an angry woman. — Emma Donoghue

The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down. — Annette Funicello

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it — William James

If you are someone's guest on a corporate jet, the most important thing to remember is not just to be on time, but to be early. If you hold up the departure of the jet by as much as 10 minutes, you may cause the plane to wait in line for another hour or two before obtaining new clearance. — Letitia Baldrige

I believe everyone on earth has a certain goal/dream in life. I also believe anyone can achieve this if they set their minds to it. — Tom Monaghan

Unlike animals, we are able to produce emotional states through thinking," she says. "A zebra is only going to be horrendously stressed if a lion is chasing it, but my students can get themselves in the same state by worrying about their midterm." And, she points out, it's much easier for us to think ourselves into worry than into happiness. People — Kara Platoni

When things are really good, really easy it's not cool for me. — Romario

What could be more interesting to students than their own behavior and that of others? — Wilbert J. McKeachie