"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
~ Dorothy Parker
As much as 45 percent of what we do every day is a habit,
researchers say, triggered by one of the following:
* a specific location or time of day
* a certain series of actions
* a particular mood
* the company of specific people.
From "Warning: habits may be good for you," by Charles Duhigg (The New York Times, 7-13-08)
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
~ Sir Francis Darwin
"If you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it well.
"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
"Everything should be as simple as it can be, yet no simpler"
~ Albert Einstein
If you can’t explain your theory to a bartender, it’s probably no good.
~ Ernest Rutherford, astrophysicist, quoted by Bill Roorbach in Writing Life Stories
"Just tell me what time it is! I don't care how you built the clock!"
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
~ Muriel Rukeyser, “The Speed of Darkness”
New Formulas for America's Workforce: Girls in Science and Engineering (written by Pat McNees, for the National Science Foundation)
