Quotes

• Personally, I think that people who say they wish they had their lives to live over again, probably shouldn't anyway.
• Wonder why it is that people who can make fools out of themselves are such excellent craftsmen.
• People who say they've learned from their mistakes should have studied more for the test in the first place.
• As I reflect upon on my past, the thing I regret the most... is its length.
• The way some people find fault with every damn thing in life, you'd think there was a reward.
• Even as I age, I still consider myself a "go-getter"... of course now, I have to make two trips.
• Trust me, when humans were created, I believe there was a very good reason why the body was configured so that ya cannot pat yourself on the back.

One Liners - When...

• When working hard, be sure to get up and retch every so often.
• When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're you're finished with, you will need it instantly.
• When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer, provided of course you know that there is a problem.
• When you are confronted by any complex social system, such as an urban center or a hamster, with things about it that you're dissatisfied with and anxious to fix, you cannot just step in and set about fixing with much hope of helping. This realization is one of the sore discouragements of our century. Jay Forrester has demonstrated it mathematically, with his computer models of cities in which he makes clear that whatever you propose to do, based on common sense, will almost inevitably make matters worse rather than better. You cannot meddle with one part of a complex system from the outside without the almost risk of setting off disastrous events that you hadn't counted on in other, remote parts. If you want to fix something you are first obliged to understand, in detail, the whole system, and for very large systems you can't do this without a very large computer. Even then, the safest course seems to be to stand by and wring hands, but not to touch. Intervening is a way of causing trouble. - Lewis Thomas, from the essay "On Meddling" in the collection "The Medusa and the Snail", The Viking Press, New York, 1979
• When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
• When you are right be logical, when you are wrong befuddle.
• When you are sure you're right, you have a moral duty to impose your will upon anyone who disagrees with you.
• When you are up to your butt in alligators, it is difficult to keep your mind on the fact that your primary objective was to drain the swamp.
• When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal.
• Your own car uses more gas and oil than anyone else's. 

Chemistry Collection

• Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams
• Chemicals: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.
• Remember, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate!
• There is the joke about the homeopath who forgot to take his medicine and died of an overdose.

Q: How many physical chemists does it take to wash a beaker? A: None. That's what organic chemists are for!

• It is disconcerting to reflect on the number of students we have flunked in chemistry for not knowing what we later found to be untrue. --quoted in Robert L. Weber, Science With a Smile (1992)
• Physical Chemistry is research on everything for which the negative logaritm is linear with 1/T -- D.L. Bunker

Q: What weapon can you make from the Chemicals Potassium, Nickel and Iron? A: KNiFe.