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. . . SCIENCE see: "EVOLUTION" see: "EXPERIMENT" see: "INVENTIONS" see: "TECHNOLOGY" see: "UNIVERSE" see: "WONDER" see: "DISCOVERY" for other related links see: "KNOWLEDGE" for other related links I firmly believe that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Some day science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world. --Henry Brooks Adams (18381918) American historian & man of letters. In a letter to his brother [11 April 1862]. With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. Our knowledge of science has already out- stripped our capacity to control it. We have many men of science, too few men of God. --Omar Bradley (18931981) American general. In an address in Boston, Massachusetts [10 November 1948]. In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. --Francis Darwin (18481925) English botanist. In "Eugenics Review" [April 1914] - Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. _Out Of My Later Years_ [1950] When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Recalled on his death [18 April 1955]. - - The four stages of acceptance: 1. This is worthless nonsense. 2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view. 3. This is true, but quite unimportant. 4. I always said so. --J.B.S. Haldane (18921964) Scottish mathematical biologist. (Referring to the stages scientific theory often goes through.) - The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes; and the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance. --William Hazlitt (17781830) English essayist. _Burke and the Edinburgh Phrenologists_ [1829] Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894) American physician, poet, and essayist. _The Poet at the Breakfast-Table_ [1872], ch. 5 Science has "explained" nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. --Aldous Huxley (18941963) English novelist (grandson of T.H. Huxley.) _Along the Road_ [1925], pt. 2, "Views of Holland" Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Attributed in George Crabb _English Synonyms Explained_ [1826]. We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968) American civil rights leader. _Strength to Love_ [1963], ch. 13 Modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem. --Fran Lebowitz (1946 ) American humorist. _Metropolitan Life_ [1978] I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. --Thomas Love Peacock (17851866) English satirist and author. _Gryll Grange_, ch. XIX [1860] There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Life on the Mississippi_ [1883], ch. XVII "Cut-Offs and Stephen"  . . see: "RELIGION" for related links see: "KNOWLEDGE" for related links We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. --Omar Bradley (18931981) American general. Speech on Armistice Day [1948]. Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see. But microscopes are prudent In an emergency. --Emily Dickinson (18301886) American poet. _Poems_ [Second Series 1891] "Faith Is a Fine Invention" Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. _Science, Philosophy, and Religion_ [1940] The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968) American civil rights leader. _Strength to Love_ [1963] - The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretences, and as certainly as if he granted that a horsehair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Minority Report_ [1956] There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus rose from the dead or he didn't. If he did, then Christianity becomes plausible; if he did not, then it is sheer nonsense. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks_ [1956] - When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with the enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God. For, as all right-thinking people were aware, lightning is sent by God to punish impiety or some other grave sin the virtuous are never struck by lightning. Therefore if God wants to strike any one, Benjamin Franklin ought not to defeat His design; indeed, to do so is helping criminals to escape. But God was equal to the occasion, if we are to believe the eminent Dr. Price, one of the leading divines of Boston. Lightning having been rendered ineffectual by the "iron points invented by the sagacious Dr. Franklin," Massachusetts was shaken by earthquakes, which Dr. Price perceived to be due to God's wrath at the "iron points." In a sermon on the subject he said, "In Boston are more erected than elsewhere in New England, and Boston seems to be more dreadfully shaken. Oh! there is no getting out of the mighty hand of God." Apparently, however, Providence gave up all hope of curing Boston of its wickedness, for, though lightning rods became more and more common, earthquakes in Massachusetts have remained rare. Nevertheless, Dr. Price's point of view, or something very like it, is still held by one of the most influential of living men. When, at one time, there were several bad earthquakes in India, Mahatma Gandhi solemnly warned his compatriots that these disasters had been sent as a punishment for their sins. --Bertrand Russell (18721970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. _An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish_ [1943] How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant'? --Carl Sagan (19341996) American astronomer and author. _Pale Blue Dot_ [1995] ;void(0)) SCIENCE AND SOCIETY . . see: "THE HUMAN RACE" for related links A public that does not understand how science works can all too easily fall prey to those ignoramuses like Senator Proxmire who make fun of what they do not understand, or to the sloganeers who proclaim scientists to be the mercenary warriors of today, and the tools of the military. --Isaac Asimov (19201992) Russian-born American author. In "Nature" [November 1963]. There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly probable. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Treatise on the Gods_ [1930], ch. 5 "Its State Today" The priest persuades humble people to endure their hard lot; the politician urges them to rebel against it; and the scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether. --Max Perutz (19142002) Austrian-born scientist. _Is Science Necessary_ [1989] A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. --Max Planck [Karl Ernst Ludwig] (18581947) German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory; winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1918. _Scientific Autobiography, and Other Papers_ "Scientific Autobiography" [1948] . . see: "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links - Did you ever read what they call Science Fiction? It's a scream. It's written like this: "I checked out with K19 on Adabaran III, and stepped out through the crummaliote hatch on my 22 Model Sirius Hardtop. I cocked the timejector in secondary and waded through the bright blue manda grass. My breath froze into pink pretzels. I flicked on the heat bars and the Bryllis ran swiftly on five legs using their other two to send out crylon vibrations. . . ." --Raymond Chandler (18881959) American writer of detective fiction. Letter to H. N. Swanson_ [14 March 1953]. - Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. --Philip K. Dick (19281982) American science fiction writer. _I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon_ [1978] . . see: "HURTING SOMEONE" for related links By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves. --William Hazlitt (17781830) English essayist. Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] _Back to Methuselah_ [1921] There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect. --Johann Georg Zimmermann (17281795) Swiss philosophical writer and physician. _Aphorisms and Reflections on Men, Morals and Things_ [1800] ----- sardonic [sar-DON-ik], adjective: Scornful, mocking; disdainfully humorous. Synonyms: caustic, ironic, sarcastic, satirical, scoffing. supercilious (adj.) [su-pκr-'si-li-yκs] Overly haughty and condescending, disdainful, toplofty. ;void(0)) SCOTLAND . . Photograph: Loch Lomond see: "PLACES" for related links At present I am full of the Highlands which I had never seen till this year, except a glimpse of the outskirts of them which I got when a boy of eight years old. I have been up in Ross-shire, and a more impressive country I never saw. After being used to the Lake country, over which you could throw a pocket-hankerchief, the extent of the Highlands gives a sense of vastness; and then the desolation, which in Switzerland, with the meadows, industry, and population of the valleys, one never has; but in the Highlands, miles and miles and miles of mere heather and peat and rocks, and not a soul. And then the sea comes up into the land on the west coast, and the mountain forms there are quite magnificent. Norway alone, I imagine has country like it. Then also I have a great _penchant_ for the Celtic races, with their melancholy and unprogressiveness. --Matthew Arnold (18221888) English Victorian poet and literary and social critic. Letter to Lady de Rothschild [25 September 1864]. - At dinner, Mrs. Thrale expressed a wish to go and see Scotland. Johnson: 'Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England. It is seeing the flower gradually fade away to the naked stalk.' Seeing the Hebrides, indeed, is seeing quite a different scene. --James Boswell (17401795) Scottish lawyer, diarist, and author. _Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791] When I was at Ferney in 1764, I mentioned our design to Voltaire. He looked at me as if I had talked of going to the North Pole, and said, 'You do not insist on m accompanying you?' 'No sir.' 'Then I am very willing you should go.' --James Boswell (17401795) Scottish lawyer, diarist, and author. _Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson_ [1773] - When death's dark stream I ferry o'er A time that surely shall come; In Heaven itself, I'll ask no more, Than just a Highland welcome. --Robert Burns (17591796) Scottish poet and songwriter. "A verse...on taking Leave" [2 September 1787] We will and concede for us and all our heirs and successors, by the common counsel, assent and consent of the prelates, magnates, earls and barons and communities of our realm in our parliament that the kingdom of Scotland shall remain forever separate in all respects from the kingdom of England, in its entirety, free and in peace, without any kind of subjection. --Edward III (13121377) King of England [13271377]. (Recognizing the independence of Scotland in February 1328.) These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. --Alfred Hitchcock (18991980) British-born film director. - Anoch, a village in Glenmollison of three huts, one of which is distinguished by a chimney. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland_ [1775] The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England! --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791] "6 July 1763". [Of Lord Mansfield, born in Scotland but educated in England:] Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be *caught* young. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ (Entry for Spring 1772) [1791]. - One sunny afternoon in 1984, the kids were at camp, and Brian [husband] said to me, "Let's go play golf." And I said, "But you don't play golf." He said, "But I think I should play." I asked why and he said, "Because I'm Scottish." --Cheryl Ladd in "Travel & Leisure Golf" [August 2005]. There is still something of an Odyssey up there, in among the islands and the silent Lochs: like the twilight morning of the world, the herons fishing undisturbed by the water, and the sea running far in, for miles, between the wet trickling hills, where the cottages are low and almost invisible, built into the earth. It is still out of the world like the very beginning of Europe. --D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (18851930) English novelist and poet. Letter to Else Jaffe, Newtonmore [20 August 1926]. What I think is that it has suffered in the past, and is suffering now, from too much England. --A. G. Macdonell (18951941) Scottish writer, journalist and broadcaster. _My Scotland_ [1937] How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test? --Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921 ) Consort of Queen Elizaberh II. To a driving instructor in Scotland. As the intercourse between this part of Great Britain and the capital daily increases, both on account of business and amusement, and must still go on increasing, gentlemen educated in Scotland have long been sensible of the disadvantages under which they labour, from their imperfect knowledge of the English tongue, and the impropriety with which they speak it. --Regulations of the Select Society [1761] _Scots Magazine_ V. 23 [1761] p. 389 There are two things a Highlander likes naked, and one of them is malt whisky. --Scottish saying Scotch whisky to a Scotchman is as innocent as milk is to the rest of the human race. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Quoted in Charles Neider (ed.) _The Autobiography of Mark Twain_ [1959]. flapdawdron, n. A tall, ill-dressed person habberjock, n. a big, stupid person who speaks thickly mushlin, n. One who is fond of dainty food eaten secretly smusch, n. a short, dark person with abundant hair tulch, n. A short person of sulky, stubborn temper --In Alexander Warrack's _Scots Dictionary_. It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine. --P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (18811975) English humorist; American citizen from 1955. _Blandings Castle and Elsewhere_ [1935] - O ye'll tak' the high road and I'll tak' the low road, And I'll be in Scotland afore ye, But me and my true love with never meet again, On the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomon'. --anon. "The Bonnie Banks of Loch Loman'" [trad. song] - ----- gardyloo (adverb) [gah(r)-di-'lu] An exclamation to alert passers-by of slops or dirty water about to be dropped from a window above their heads. The inhabitants of upstairs Edinburgh (and a few other areas of Scotland) traditionally shouted this warning before emptying their wash bowls and slop buckets onto the street below. Etymology: Philippe Auguste, who ruled France from 1180-1223, according to legend, received the contents of a chamber pot on his head while strolling through the streets of Paris. The upshot of this misfortunate incident was that all residents of Paris began to exclaim, "gare ΰ l'eau!" (look out for the water!) before dumping their dirty washwater (and more sordid liquids) out of their windows onto the streets. Hogmanay [hog-muh-NAY; HOG-muh-nay], noun: The name, in Scotland, for New Year's Eve, on which children go about singing and asking for gifts; also, a gift, cake, or treat given on New Year's Eve. Ex.: The biggest celebration in Britain was in Edinburgh, where Hogmanay drew about 200,000 people to a free street party in the city centre. --"Archbishop of Canterbury calls for greater generosity," _Irish Times_ [2 January 1999] . . see: "DECEPTION" for related links Chi Chi Rodriguez is best known for his humerous antics on the golf course, and he often combines fun with a bit of hustling. Once, while playing a not-so-friendly nassau at a course in Puerto Rico, he closed out his opponent on the 17th hole and then offered him an attractive press on 18. "I'll give you two strokes and one throw for all the marbles," said Rodriguez. They agreed, and both reached the par-4 green in two, with Rodrigues away. " I think I'll take my throw now," said Rodriguez. And with that he picked up his opponent's ball and tossed it far out into the ocean. "With your drop you''re now lying four," said Rodriguez. "*And* you're away." --In Dick Crouser _Golf's Funniest Anecdotes_ [2001] As long as a scoundrel is illustrious he can count on the support of most men. --Frederick II [Frederick the Great] (17121786) King of Prussia [17401786]. _Anti-Machiavel_ [1740], tr. Paul Sonnino [1981] Only a sadistic scoundrel or a fool tells the bald truth on social occasions. --Robert Heinlein (19071988) American science-fiction writer. _Time Enough for Love_ [1973] People like you are all scoundrels. I do not mind if a hundred have hanged themselves. --Henri IV [Henry of Naverre] (15531610) King of France [15891610]. In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 380. Cohan & Major explain: The king harshly rebuffs a petitioner, brother of a woman who has hanged herself and six young children, after being made destitute by the taille and forced to sell her cow. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _Life of Samuel Johnson_ "7 April 1775" [1791]. (This criticism was aimed at *politicians* who masked self-interest with a feigned love of country.) There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people don't extract some advantage from. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Newspaper Days: 18991906_, ch. 2 [1941] Every man over forty is a scoundrel. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] _Man and Superman_ [1903] ----- blackguard [BLAG-uhrd], noun: 1. A rude or unscrupulous person; a scoundrel. 2. A person who uses foul or abusive language. miscreant [MIS-kree-uhnt], adjective: 1. Disbelieving; heretical. 2. Depraved; behaving badly. noun: 1. A disbeliever; a heretic. 2. A scoundrel; an evildoer; a villain. No one would think to look for him in a fourth-floor jail cell atop this small-town county courthouse, a face unrecognizable among the town drunks and petty thieves and other local miscreants. --Richard A. Serrano, "One of Ours" scapegrace [SKAYP-grayss], noun: A reckless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless; a rascal; a scoundrel. . . see: "CONSCIENCE" see: "ETHICS" see: "DECEPTION" for other related links He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples. --Ogden Nash (19021971) American writer of humorous poetry. In _The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash_ [1945]. ;void(0)) SCULPTURE . . see: "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links Why don't they stick to murder and leave art to us? --Jacob Epstein (18801959) American-born British Expressionist sculptor. (On hearing that his statue of Lazurus in New College chapel, Oxford, kept Khrushchev awake at night.) ----- socle (noun) ['so-kκl] A plain square block that serves as a pedestal for a sculpture, vase, or column. end page | SACRED PLACES - SANTA CLAUS | SARCASM - SCHOOL | SCIENCE - SCULPTURE | SEA (THE) - SEEING | SELF - SELF-ESTEEM | SELF-EXAMINATION - SEMANTICS | SENATE (THE U.S.) - SERIOUSNESS | SEX | SEX SYMBOLS - SHEEP | SHIPS - SHYNESS | SICKNESS - SILENCE | SILLINESS - SINGING | SINGLE-MINDEDNESS - SKY | SLANDER - SLAVERY | SLEEP - SMILES | SMOKING - SOCIETY | SOLDIERS - SOPHISTICATION | SORROW - SOUTH SEA | SPACE - SPAM | SPEECH | SPEECHES - SPENDTHRIFTS | SPIDERS - SPY | SPORTS & SPORTSMANSHIP | STAGE (THE) - STERILIZATION | STOCK MARKET - STRANGERS | STRENGTH - SUBURBS | SUCCESS | SUFFERING - SUMMER | SUN - SUPREME COURT | SURPRISE - SYSTEM (THE) | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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