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    A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?

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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or read more

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

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In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million read more

In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million year old fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.

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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those read more

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. -Carl Sagan.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. -Carl Sagan.

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of read more

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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