Schachne Quotes & Sayings

I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number. — Henry Petroski

Putting on socks is hard work," said Bink. "I'm hungry. — Kate DiCamillo

Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the 'man in white' dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology. — Christian De Duve

When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form — John Adams

Even the plants in Arizona wanted to hurt you. — Janette Rallison

Cop-out excuses and catch-phrase dismissals can only work so long before the holes in the religious argument cannot be ignored any longer. — Steve Dustcircle