I love to write diary during my leisure time:

        "Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step;

         only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road."

        "It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in the century, the silliest, is quantum theory. Some say the only thing that quantum theory has going for it, in fact, is that it is unquestionably correct."

        "You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters; they have fortitude; they have staying qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress! With it, there is accomplishment. Without it, there are only alibis."

                                                                                                 -- Henry Ford

          Nothing happens until something moves.

                                                           -- Albert Einstein

        I hear, I forget; I see, I remember; I do, I understand.

                                                                         -- Confucious

        Joy is not in things, but in us. (taken from Lisa V home's postcard)

          Tell the truth and tell it to the one you love before someone else does.  :)    

                                                        (taken from Mrs. Karen Jansheski's email, Abu's teacher)

           If you risk nothing, you risk everything.

                                                             -- a friend of mine made this a motto of his life

       When all else lost, the future still remains.

                                                               -- Bovee

        Any matter begins with a great spiritual disturbance.

                                                                            -- Antonin Artaud

        Believe and you will understand; faith precedes, intelligence follows.(this philosophy helped me in Quantum Mechanics and it really works!--Buddhi)

                                                                                         -- Saint Augustine

    "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."   

                                                                                            -- N. Bohr

      Any necessary matter is by nature boring.

                                                              -- Aristotle, Metaphysics IV.5

        Willing is not enough, you should work; Knowledge is not enough, you should apply.

       If you want knowledge, you must take part in the practice of changing reality.

                                                                                                 Mao Zedong

        " Bloosm where you are planted. -- Annonymous

        Even nine women can not make a child in one month.

        Failure is the mother of success.

        Success is a ladder which can not be climbed with your hands in pockets.

        Necessity is the mother of invention.

        Refresh everyday, renew everyday, reorganize everyday;
        Every dog has a day;
        Every cloud has a silver line;
        Every glitter is not the gold;
        Everything has pros and cons;
        Every morning one should wash his face;
        Every person is talent.

• "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

                                                                  -- Martin F. Tupper

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• I criticize by creation -- not by finding fault.

                                                              -- Cicero

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• The electron is not as simple as it looks. 

                                                          -- Lawrence Bragg

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• OK, so you're a Ph.D.  Just don't touch anything.

   

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• Never express yourself more clearly than you think. 

                                                                          -- Bohr.

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• Fermi was asked what characteristics physics Nobelists had in common.  He answered, "I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence."

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• This message was written entirely with recycled electrons.

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• This isn't right.  This isn't even wrong.

                                                      -- Pauli

• God made the integers; all else is the work of man. 

                                                                  -- Kronecker

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• I believe that the most important difference between man and other living creatures lies not so much in having or not having a "soul" or a "spirit" but in the astonishing fact that man must "work" as a condition of existence, while a bird does not need to.

                                                                        -- M.C. Escher

• "What do you take me for, an idiot?"

                                               -- Charles de Gaulle when a journalist queried as to whether he was happy.

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• Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

                                                                  -- Pierre Laplace (Much better if you know the context.)

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• A clever man commits no minor blunders. -- Goethe

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• Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda

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• Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.  -- Plato

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• When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Goethe

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• We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

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• Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.  -- E.G. Bulwer-Lytton

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• The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. -- George Bernard Shaw

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• A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdos

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• Don't be so humble -- you are not that great. -- Golda Meir

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• "Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong." -- Geoff Arbuthnot

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• The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- JF Dobie

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• The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. -- H.L. Mencken

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• When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. -- George Bernard Shaw

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• Dignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle

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• "But man can and must deny woman:  action, action alone justifies life and satisfies the white man. . . .  A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can done.  Nothing else."  -- Ferral in A. Malraux's Man's Fate

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• Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand. -- Confucius

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• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Butler

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• A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Bernard Shaw

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• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and  intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -- Galileo

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• Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. -- Plato

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• A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.  -- Harry Browne

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• Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. -- George Bernard Shaw

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• "Say at last -- who are thou?" -- "That power I serve which wills foever evil yet does forever good." -- Goethe, Faust

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• Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. -- Laurence J. Peter

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• Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. -- Sam Brown

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• Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. -- George Sand

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• In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac

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• A guy once told me, "Do not have any attachments, do not have anything in your life you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you spot the heat around the corner."  -- Quote from the movie "Heat"

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• My original decision to devote myself to science was a direct result of the discovery which has never ceased to fill me with enthusiasm since my early youth -- the comprehension of the far from obvious fact that the laws of human reasoning coincide with the laws governing the sequences of the impressions we receive from the world about us; that, therfore, pure reasoning can enable man to gain an insight into the mechanism of the latter.  In this conneciton, it is of paramount importance that the outside world is something independent from man, something absolute, and the quest for the laws which apply to this absolute appeared to me as the most sublime scientific pursuit in life.  -- Max Planck

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• Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Gauss, upon hearing his wife was dying while he was working.

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• Our greatest battles are that with our own minds. -- Jameson Frank

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• Nature abhors a moron. -- H.L. Mencken

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• Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.  -- Blaise Pascal

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• The creative life involves alineation from others and from society.  This alienation will sometimes be experienced as acutely painful, but when one is creative that price does not seem too steep.  When one's creative powers flag and one is dissatisfied with one's own work, it may not seem worth it.  At such times, when one is not creative, one may actually envy those who live a very different kind of life, endow them with a bliss they do not feel, and thus deceive oneself.  But when one is creative, one would not change places with anyone -- except possibly one who is more creative. -- Walter Kaufmann

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• All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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• It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. -- Eugene Ionesco

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• He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Modern education is also at fault in another way.  Not only is it false that everyone has the gifts to become a competent composer, painter, novelist, or physicist, but the creative life is hard, and to find satisfaction in it requires an immense amount of self-discipline.  But self-discipline has been neglected in modern education.  The point is not that schools are not sufficiently disciplinarian.  Most of them are too disciplinarian in unnecessary, petty ways and thus bring discipline into disrepute.  What has not been stressed sufficiently is functional self-discipline:  the need to master skills and subjects that one may not feel like learning but without which competence in one's chosen field cannot be had.... -- Walter Kaufmann

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• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.  -- George Bernard Shaw

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• I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.  -- George Bernard Shaw

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• It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.  -- Leo Tolstoy (Truly in his spirit.  Just when I start to think man can be heroic again, good 'ol Leo tries to cast a shadow on the likelihood of that notion.  He's more or less right here, though.)

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• If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. -- Kurt Lewin

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• But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. -- Benjamin Disraeli

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• We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.  -- Marcel Proust

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• The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.  -- William Davis

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• Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more. -- George Bernard Shaw

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• In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.  -- Stephen Jay Gould

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• Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong. -- Longfellow

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• It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. -- Konrad Lorenz

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• Facts are the air of scientists.  Without them you can never fly.  -- Linus Pauling

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• The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.  -- Lucretius

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• Wisdom begins in wonder.  -- Socrates

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• Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. -- Albert Einstein

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• Courage, however, is the best slayer - courage which attacks:  which slays even death itself, for it says, "Was that life?  Well then!  Once more!" -- On the vision and the riddle -- Friedrich Nietzsche [Perhaps my favorite quote of all time from Nietzsche]

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• What has the hide of my humility not borne?  I dwell at the foot of my height.  How high are my peaks?  No one has told me yet.  But my valleys I know well. -- The Stillest Hour -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Indeed, in me there is something invulnerable and unburiable, something that explodes rock:  that is my will. -- The tomb song -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Who among you can laugh and be elevated at the same time? -- On Reading & Writing -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Free from what?  As if that mattered to Zarathustra!  But your eyes should tell me brightly:  free for what? -- On the way of the creator -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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• "He who seeks, easily gets lost.  All loneliness is guilt" - thus speaks the herd. -- On the way of the creator -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Escape from the idolatry of the superflous!  -- On the new idol -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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• They call you heartless; but you have a heart, and I love you for being ashamed to show it.  You are ashamed of your flood, while others are ashamed of their ebb. -- On War & Warriors -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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• If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.  -- Winston Churchill

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• Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. -- Winston Churchill

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• Dream no small dreams, for they have no power to move the hearts of men. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.  -- Will Rogers

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• Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.  -- Bertrand Russell

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• All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.  -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Wit is educated insolence. -- Aristotle

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• To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. -- Buddha

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• Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood. -- Marie Curie

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• So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? -- Ayn Rand

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• The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.  -- Ayn Rand

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• Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. -- Ayn Rand

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• Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. -- Ayn Rand

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• A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights:  it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. -- Ayn Rand

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• A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. -- Ayn Rand

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• The most difficult thing of all is contentment and acceptance. -- M.C. Escher

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• It seems to me that feeling and analysis are not incompatible, and ought to be complementary.  You do not have to be a physicist to experience the miracle of gravity, but with the help of the intellect, your awareness of the wonder may be deeper. -- M.C. Escher

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• We do not need the moon to play an absorbing game.  The earth itself, our mightly clod of earth, is sometimes sufficient for our imagination. -- M.C. Escher

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• The person who is lucidly aware of the miracles surrounding him, and who has learned to tolerate loneliness, has made a lot of progress on the path to widsom -- or am I wrong?  -- M.C. Escher

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• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.  The world owes you nothing.  It was here first. -- Mark Twain

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• Non-sequiturs make me eat lampshades.

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• "A University without students is like an ointment without a fly."
   -- Ed Nather, astronomy prof at UT-Austin
   

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• Science is not belief, but the will to find out. -Anon.

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• The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''  -- Whitehead

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• All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.  -- Rutherford

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• Nobody knows why, but the only theories which work are the mathematical ones. -- Michael Holt

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• If your experiment needs statistics, then you ought to have done a better experiment.  - Rutherford

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• Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.  -- Albert Szent-Györgi

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• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.  So is a lot. -- Einstein

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• Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other. -- George Johnson

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• If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead.  Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.
  -- Albert Szent-Györgi
   

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• I have a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.  -- Maxwell, in a letter to C.H. Cay

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• Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.  -- Feynman

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• Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
      -- Charles Kettering
   

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• A day without fusion is like a day without sunshine.

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• You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10^12 to 1.   -- Rutherford

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• It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli.  You could ask him anything.  There was no worry that he would think that a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.  --  Victor Weisskopf

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• Physics is not a religion.  If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.  --- Leon Lederman

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• Research!  A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and never will achieve, any results of the slightest value. -- Benjamin Jowett (British Theologian)

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• Physics is like sex:  sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

                                                                                                              -- Richard Feynman (?)

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• The trouble with being punctual is that people think you have nothing more important to do.

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• I drink to make other people interesting.-- George Jean Nathan

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• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H.L. Mencken

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• Only through hard work and perserverance can one truly suffer.

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• If God is dead, who will save the Queen?

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• How you can tell its going to be a rotton day #1040:  Your income tax refund check bounces.

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• Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.

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        Give a man a fish, he eats it for a day; teach a man to fish, he eats it for his life.

                                                                                                                                    --Goethe

                                                -- Goethe

The man of imagination and no culture has wings without feet.-- Joubert

The final value of life lies in the ability to wake up in mind and think, not just in living.--Aristotle

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. --Mark Twain

A spoiled child never loves its mother-- Sir Henry Taylor