Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. -C. S. Lewis-

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the remainder of the day.

Clarke’s First Law of Prediction: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. -Albert Einstein-

I strive for mediocrity so that when I rise above it people are impressed.

Don’t marry the one you can live with. Marry the one you can’t live without.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. -Alfred North Whitehead-

If you keep your expectations low you are never disappointed.

So I was in the lab and I mixed some oxygen and some magnesium and it was, like, OMg.

The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. -Mark Twain-