<p>I just copied this from my list of senior quote possibilities from a few months ago:
"Was she told when she was young the pain would lead to pleasure?/Did she understand it when they said/That a man must break his back to earn his day of leisure,/Will she still believe it when he's dead?" - The Beatles</p>
<p>"Eschew Obfuscation! Espouse Elucidation!" - Anonymous</p>
<p>Douglas Adams:
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."</p>
<p>"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."</p>
<p>"The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along."</p>
<p>"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."</p>
<p>"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."</p>
<p>"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."</p>
<p>"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."</p>
<p>"A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there." - Charles Darwin</p>
<p>"Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life." - Tom Lehrer</p>
<p>"Base eight is just like base ten really if you're missing two fingers." - Tom Lehrer</p>
<p>"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." - Ernest Rutherford</p>
<p>"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." - Richard Feynman</p>