"To infer watchmaker from watch, you needn't know exactly what the watchmaker had in mind; indeed, you don't even have to know that the watch is a device for measuring time. Archaeologists sometimes unearth tools of unknown function, but still reasonably draw the inference that these things are, in fact, "tools"."
--Elliott Sober in his 1999 presidential address for the American Philosophical Association

"Physics is the search for where logic in the universe ends and new logic recreates itself daily through the seeming randomness of the Creator"
--Quoted by Vincas, scource unknown.

"Points are Zero D."
--Vincas Ciziunas. I never thought i would hear him admit what I have known.

"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."
--Niels Bohr

"In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them."
--Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)

"What should one make of this quartet of WAP, SAP, PAP, and FAP? In my not so humble opinion I think the last principle is best called CRAP, the Completely Ridiculous Anthropic Principle."
--Martin Gardner quoted here: Astronomical Evidences for the God of the Bible
A must read. the acronyms above are explained there, if you are smart enough to read the entire article.

"Only two things are infinite -- the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe."
--Albert Einstein,


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