[EnviroEngr]

I couldn't pass this one up:

The man who should know the true history of the
bit of chalk which every carpenter carries about in
his breeches-pocket, though ignorant of all other
history, is likely, if he will think his knowledge out
to its ultimate results, to have a truer, and therefore
a better, conception of this wonderful universe, and
of man’s relation to it, than the most learned student
who is deep-read in the records of humanity and
ignorant of those of Nature.

JULIAN HUXLEY


This as light, sweet crude is selling for $42.38 a barrel.
NYMEX.com - "Light, Sweet Crude Oil"

[EnviroEngr]

Matt,

This has to be memorialized:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Matt', '[')color=green]There is a quote from abolitionist William Garrison I had in my flash presentation (which will be back up eventually). I don't have the exact quote at hand, but in short he stated:

"Do not, do not, do not ask me to speak with moderation in regards to the situation at hand. The apathy of the people is enough to make the stone statues come alive."[/color]

[Robert Espy]

My favorite quote is:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')here's a sucker born every minute.

[MattSavinar]

The last messages transmitted from Amelia Earhart was, "Running low on gas. . ."

A great individual who achieved great things who ran low out of fuel, crashed and disappeared.

A metaphor for our civilization.

Matt

[Carrie]

Anyone watch "Three Days of the Condor", the 1975 movie? That involved a plot to invade the Middle East for the oil. Remember what Higgins, the CIA guy, said at the end of it?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')urner: Boy, what is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

Higgins: No. It's simple economics. Today, it's oil, right? In ten or fifteen years... food. Plutonium. And maybe even sooner. Now, what do you think the people are gonna want us to do then?

Turner: Ask them.

Higgins: Not now. Then. Ask them when they're running out. Ask them when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask them when their engines stop. Ask them when people who've never known hunger start going hungry. You wanna know something? They won't want us to ask them. They'll just want us to get it for them.

[Pops]

ooooohhhh ahhhh!

Carrie that's goooood!

[MadScientist]

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci534467,00.html

some really good ones on this site. they just kept getting funnier

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

[Carrie]

Thanks Pops. That was a great movie, and pretty relevant for current times too.

[frankFranchesca]

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.” ~H. G. Wells

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” ~Will Durant

[k_semler]

"I do not know how World War three will be fought, but World War four will be fought with sticks and stones"

--Albert Einstein, 1945

[Aaron]

Picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes on the fifteenth green of a forgotten golf course. You'll hunt elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center, and dig clams next to the skeleton of the Space Needle leaning at a forty-five degree angle. We'll paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night.

[EnviroEngr]

Planet of the Apes

&

Logan's Run

[Pops]

"Can't never did anything"

--My Momma

[EnviroEngr]

The farther you
enter into the truth,
the deeper it is.

BANKEI

[EnviroEngr]

If you would be a real seeker
after truth, it is necessary that at
least once in your life you doubt,
as far as possible, all things.

RENÉ DESCARTES

[EnviroEngr]

Version 1:
Do not accept what you hear by report, do not
accept tradition, do not accept a statement
because it is found in your books, nor because
it is in accord with your belief, nor because it is
the saying of your teacher. Be lamps unto
yourselves. Those who, either now or after I
am dead, shall rely upon themselves only and
not look for assistance to anyone besides
themselves, it is they who shall reach the
topmost height.

Version 2:
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it
or who has said it, not even if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.

Version 3:

Believe nothing, O monks, merely because
you have been told it . . . or because it is
traditional, or because you yourselves have
imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher
tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.
But whatsoever, after due examination and
analysis, you find to be conducive to the good,
the benefit, the welfare of all beings—that
doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as
your guide.


THE BUDDHA

[EnviroEngr]

Reality is a wave
function traveling both
backward and forward
in time.

JOHN L. CASTI

[EnviroEngr]

Right is not right; so is not so. If right
were really right, it would differ so clearly
from not right that there would be no need
for argument. If so were really so, it would
differ so clearly from not so that there
would be no need for argument. Forget
the years; forget distinctions. Leap into
the boundless and make it your home.

CHUANG-TZU

[EnviroEngr]

The first key to wisdom
is assiduous and frequent
questioning. For by doubting
we come to inquiry and by
inquiry we arrive at the truth.

PETER ABELARD

[Aaron]

"Imagine," Tyler said, "stalking elk past department store windows and stinking racks of beautiful rotting dresses and tuxedos on hangers; you'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life, and you'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. Jack and the beanstalk, you'll climb up through the dripping forest canopy and the air will be so clean you'll see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison to dry in the empty car pool lane of an abandoned superhighway stretching eight-lanes-wide and August-hot for a thousand miles."