Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:    sign

“End of Construction. Thank you for your patience.”
Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham’s grave — inspired by a road sign she saw.
~Billy Graham

There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of light and dark from which to choose
~Ase-Marie Nesse

What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.
~C S Lewis

EndQuote:
Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart
~Haruki Murakami

 

 

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Exercise Prompt for 03/14:   audience

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My cat speaks sign language with her tail.
~Robert A M Stern

Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded.
~Tarryn Fisher

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.
~C S Lewis

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.
~John Cusack

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Posted from the Grove

People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It’s so fun. People are busting each other’s chops, and it’s a sign of affection, truly. It’s a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit ’em hard.
~Jeff Ross

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
~Alexander Pope

Never apologize, mister. It’s a sign of weakness.
~Frank S Nugent

The Nazi signs have got to stop. If you’re in a peace march and the guy next to you has a sign saying that ‘Bush is Hitler,’ forget the peace thing for a second and beat his ass, because he is not Hitler.
~Dennis Miller

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
~Walker Percy

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The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for — for what? Someday we’ll know.
~Edward Abbey

NYC doesn’t have a big sign saying “You must love diversity and the rights of all people.” And that’s not what makes you love diversity in NYC or anywhere. What makes you love diversity is because you live in it and you experience it.
~Mohsin Hamid

The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.
~Mason Cooley

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~Rowan Atkinson:  Interview with Elton John   (2:27)   smiles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl0HqlbX7dc

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~Brooke Meredith:  Signs of a Lasting Relationship
https://medium.com/@brookemeredith/how-to-tell-if-your-relationship-will-last-c7a86b87e2b4

 

 

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I’m interested in that thing that happens where there’s a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there’s no sign that it’s going to get any better, and that’s the point when people quit. But some don’t.
~Robert Redford

When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.
~Nido R Qubein

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In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.
~John Ruskin

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.
~John Ruskin

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
~Eugene Ionesco

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VIDEO:

Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them.
~Paulo Coelho

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
~Anatole France

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
~Mignon McLaughlin

Heard once that in dire times when you need a sign, that’s when they appear.
~Drake

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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
~Niccolo Machiavelli

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
~Greil Marcus

Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don’t have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude! They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!
~Fred Van Lente

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You will say these are very small sins… [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts
~C S Lewis

Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.
~Oprah Winfrey

The funny thing about stop signs is that they’re also start signs.
~Maureen Johnson

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~Patrick Hughes:  Signs   (12:34)   by-the-numbers cute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qn9g1wvsgM

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~Omeleto:  This Always Happens   (14:08)   his eyes at the end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7aKzHzfNLs

 

 

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There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.
~Chuck Close

You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.
~Don King

What [Barack Obama] and I did was to say clearly what we’re doing, all the bluster, all of the sanctions, that are just imposed by the American government haven’t had much impact. Let’s see if we can put together an international coalition to really cripple Iran, and then maybe we can begin a negotiation, and that’s what I did. It was difficult. We had to get China and Russia on board, and not just get them on board by signing a piece of paper.
~Hillary Clinton

There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just by signing an agreement. In fact, most peace agreements don’t last.
~Hillary Clinton

There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream.
~James M Kouzes

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Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
~Dalai Lama

The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.
~Myles Munroe

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
~Francis Jeffrey

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
~Albert Camus

Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex.
~David Brin

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
~John Ruskin

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.
~James Cash Penney

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
~Ernest Mandel

It’s a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
~Miles Franklin

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In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
~Billie Jean King

He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead–black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs apart, the woman had hers together. Pretty much the story of the human race in sign language.
~Stephen King

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
~Virginia Woolf

There’s something real in women’s intuition. It’s an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man’s logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.
~Jon Voight

It’s time to take the ‘Men Only’ sign off the White House door.
~Carol Moseley Braun

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MUSIC:

I’m the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, “Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed.”
~Laurie Halse Anderson

In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute — how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.
~John Green

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…
driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light,
the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
~Carson McCullers

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
~Mahatma Gandhi

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they “don’t understand” one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
~Helen Rowland

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A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start … It is certainly a sign of love, but it’s a sign that it’s already dying.
~Francoise Sagan

Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve looked. That’s the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don’t, but between those who want to know everything and those who don’t. This search is a sign of love I maintain.
~Julian Barnes

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.
~Tom Robbins

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I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.
~William Shakespeare

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~Hendrix:  Born Under a Bad Sign, feat – Cream   (5:41)   Clapton on guitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEGVtbgYx2I

-or-   (note the guitar solo in each)

~Hendrix:  Born Under a Bad Sign, feat – Joe Bonamassa   (5:06)   sizzle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEO9zm_-QPU

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~Wayne Hancock:  Thunderstorms and Neon Signs   (5:11)   roadside diner bona fides
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ItgMRXv6v0

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~Harry Styles:  Sign of the Times   (5:41)   it is to fly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN4ooNx77u0

 

 

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In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
~Billie Jean King

He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead–black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs apart, the woman had hers together. Pretty much the story of the human race in sign language.
~Stephen King

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
~Virginia Woolf

There’s something real in women’s intuition. It’s an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man’s logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.
~Jon Voight

It’s time to take the ‘Men Only’ sign off the White House door.
~Carol Moseley Braun

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My favourite road sign is ‘Falling Rocks’. What exactly am I supposed to do with that information? They may as well have a sign saying “Random accidents ahead”, “Life’s a lottery, Be lucky.”
~Jimmy Carr

The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you’re signing somebody’s cast.
~Demetri Martin

You know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It’s a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.
~Nikki Giovanni

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.
~Mark Twain

In the case of some women, orgasms take quite a bit of time. Before signing on with such a partner, make sure you are willing to lay aside, say, the month of June, with sandwiches having to be brought in.
~Bruce Jay Friedman

[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what’s in it.
~Ken Blanchard

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
~Steven Wright

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
~Benjamin Disraeli

We won’t be signing off until the world ends. We’ll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event… we’ll play ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee’ before we sign off.
~Ted Turner

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© David Lorenz Winston

 

 

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ARIES:
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
~Reba McEntire (March 28)

TAURUS:
A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.
~Jerry Seinfeld (April 29)

GEMINI:
I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that’s 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says ‘go outside.”
~Demetri Martin (May 25)

CANCER:
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
~Dave Barry (July 3)

LEO:
Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
~Alex Haley (August 11)

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, how could you break them?
~Leo Durocher (July 27)

VIRGO:
When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.
~Lily Tomlin (September 1)

LIBRA:
I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
~David Lee Roth (October 10)

SCORPIO:
I can’t watch American Idol… it’s like karaoke without the booze.
~Tracy Morgan

SAGITTARIUS:
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.”
~Ron White (December 18)

CAPRICORN:
If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
~William Lyon Phelps (January 2)

~AQUARIUS:
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
~George Burns (January 20)

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We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
~D H Lawrence

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@Writers Platform

All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through.
~Albert Schweitzer

Art is a staple of mankind… So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.
~Jamake Highwater

Language leads a double life – and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form – as the stuff of patterned artifice.
~Martin Amis

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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
~James Buchan

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.
~Confucius

Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.
~Naum Gabo

Modern music is people who can’t think signing artists who can’t write songs to make records for people who can’t hear. Most people wouldn’t know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass…If lyrics make people do things, how come we don’t love each other?
~Frank Zappa

 

 

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Exercise Prompt:   sign

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You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead—your next stop, the Twilight Zone.
~Rod Serling

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.
~Gail Godwin

Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another…The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.
~M Scott Peck

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.
~Max Born

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The Exercise:

~BarTalk:

classroom

signed up, signed in
all set to begin
today’s lesson: love
will fit in a teacup
fill a bottomless bin
sublime worlds at war
humans, women and men
cover the gamut
from sacred to sin
the rewards of words
in seductions of yin
a chance at enchantment
spin the bottle to win

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circle to zero

socially signed out
transcendently clocked out
safe at a distance
sidestep the issue
notice the difference
the remedy of contact
touch of self in lieu of love

hearts begin racing
a bubbling excitement
uncorked by a vaccine
when societal walls
and emotional stalls
of worlds in lockdown
all fall down

assuming normalcy
no other malevolent
surprise in waiting
then praise the return
of the party-quotidian
back to the old days
back from isolation
to being alone

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circumscribed

all parts in place
all parts the same
more or less
in various shades
stages
proportions
textures

the body beautiful
that housed a mind

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legal tender

the mouth may speak
but the eyes declare
lips will part
say I love you
but only the eyes
can sign that check

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5-7-5-7-7 x 2

bun in the oven
three kids two dogs large front yard
tree house a clubhouse
country lane a creek nearby
signs the times we had were good

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bright red by midday
flaunting it in Florida
sign of sun’s poison
seven shades darker than pink
mine’s the gin sunrise I think

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5-7-5

autograph hound, not
please sign on the dotted line
yes sir, officer
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I’m sure she’ll love it
sign here at the bottom please
charge card takes a hit

 

 

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Last Quotes:

Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in a automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at a terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked “progress.”
~Lord Dunsany

While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.
~Eugene J Martin

If you wouldn’t write it and sign it, don’t say it.
~Earl Wilson

I’m not opposed to a fancy meal, but I’ll take a picnic any day… food and nature? Sign me up.
~Ryan Paevey

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
~Albert Einstein

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
~Blaise Pascal

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
~Aesop

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
~Albert Einstein

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
~J K Rowling

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Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life.
~Lynn Margulis

Old age likes indecency. It’s a sign of life.
~Mason Cooley

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There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.
~Norman Vincent Peale

The ability to take pleasure in one’s life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.
~Todd Solondz

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Maybe I sound like some Victorian who felt that forty years ought to be enough for any man, but one of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.
~David Rakoff

I can’t get over that at this age I don’t feel this age. I’m not trying to be any younger. I’m not lying about my age. If I were lying about my age, I would say I was 89. I’m just at one of those good times in one’s life. I’m at one of the high spots. I’m healthy enough to enjoy it. I’m surrounded by friends I adore. Isn’t that kind of the best way to sign off?
~Betty White

 

 

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Quoted in The Grove:    science

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
~Will Durant

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.
~Henry Petroski

Religion is concerned with how the world should work; science with how the world does work.
~Dr Idel Dreimer

EndQuote:
Science is Nature’s interpreter.
~James Lendall Basford

 

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Exercise Prompt for 03/07:   sign

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All Science had its Errors in the Past.
‘Tis better Error should come First than Last.
~Arthur Guiterman

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
~Jules Verne

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.
~Lewis Thomas

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
~Richard P Feynman

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POSTED from THE GROVE

In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,” and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
~Carl Sagan

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
~Robert A Heinlein

The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Being a scientist is like doing a jigsaw puzzle in a snowstorm at night, with some pieces missing, and with no idea what the finished picture looks like.
~Anonymous

Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.
~Wernher Von Braun

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. ~Marston Bates

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research.
~Albert Einstein

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?
~Will Harvey

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~Erik Wernquist:  Wanderers   (3:50)   written/narrated by Carl Sagan
https://vimeo.com/108650530

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~Noel Botham & the Useless Information Society:  Facts About the Human Brain
https://delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?4286

Thx: Delanceyplace.com

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~Veritasium:  The Illusion Only Some Can See   (16:55)   how comes early, examples follow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBap_Lp-0oc

 

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Malevolent criticisms will not disturb my peace of mind, I shall take no notice of them, however carefully they may be dressed up in the garb of science.
~Sebastian Kneipp

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
~Arnold H Glasow

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
~Hippocrates

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
~Charles Darwin

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
~Adam Smith

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
~Henry Adams

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VIDEO:

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?
~Johannes Kepler

There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature’s numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming.
~Paul Davies

The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God.
~Charles Darwin

I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery, but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.
~Allan Sandage

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
~Max Planck

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~James Kennedy:  CTRL Z   (23:15)   sci-fi rom-com
https://vimeo.com/266473858

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~Shep Films:  In The Pines   (8:56)   a visitation?
https://vimeo.com/53532069

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~Dan Florencio:  Awfully Deep   (12:29)   allegory?
https://vimeo.com/44035481

 

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What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn’t prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.
~Stephen Hawking

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
~Walter Lippmann

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The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother’s milk.
~H L Mencken

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question ‘How?’ but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question ‘Why?’
~Erwin Chargaff

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
~Martin Rees

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
~Steven Weinberg

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
~Robert Quillen

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
~Galileo Galilei

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God’s thoughts, the rest are details.
~Albert Einstein

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
~Jean Rostand

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MUSIC:

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
~Arthur C Clarke

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
~Mary Kay Ash

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
~Robert A Heinlein

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
~Ray Bradbury

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
~Stephen Hawking

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~David Bowie:  Space Oddity,  feat. Cmdr Chris Hadfield, astronaut   (5:30)   filmed International Space Station

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~Peter Schilling:  Major Tom   (4:06) a different Major Tom in space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO0A0XcWy88

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~Elton John:  Rocket Man  feat.  Iron Horse   (3:55)   bluegrass works nicely here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=forqmom3YuY

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~Sam Cooke:  Wonderful World  feat.  Ivy Stokes   (1:44)   charming delivery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA5wkd3ZbSA

 

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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
~Neil Armstrong

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
~Max Planck

The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.
~J T Fraser

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Statistics is the grammar of science.
~Karl Pearson

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
~Ernest Rutherford

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
~Albert Einstein

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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
~Niels Bohr

That theory is worthless. It isn’t even wrong!
~Wolfgang Pauli

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The element of surprise wasn’t allowed near the Periodic Table
~Joseph-Gordon Levitt

 

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When gravity calls, something falls.
~JLW Brooks

The law of gravity is absurd and indefensible when you fall downstairs; but you obey it.
~Arnold Bennett

Ah, gravity: thou art a heartless bitch.
~The Big Bang Theory

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Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
~Matt Groening

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled “Science Fiction” … and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
~Kurt Vonnegut

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself “well, that’s not going to happen”
~Rita Rudner

A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women.
~Author unknown

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

If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.
~Henry J Tillman

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
~Dave Barry

Electricity is really just organized lightning.
~George Carlin

When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they’re not it.
~Bernard Bailey

Science has now determined there is a direct relationship between the way the ball bounces and the cookie crumbles.
~Anonymous

I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It’s also been lying about its weight.
~Bill Maher

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
~Bill Watterson

The goal of science and engineering is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.
~Anonymous

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A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
~Edward Teller

The great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
~Thomas H Huxley

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
~John Polanyi

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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
~Thomas A Edison

Physics is imagination in a straitjacket.
~John Moffat

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.
~J B S Haldane

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
~Bertrand Russell

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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
~Isaac Asimov

The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.
~Fred Alan Wolfe

Quantum physics makes me so happy — it’s like looking at the universe naked.
~from The Big Bang Theory

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
~Ernest Rutherford

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@WRITERS PLATFORM

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
~Theodore Sturgeon

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

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
~Will Durant

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
~Steven Weinberg

When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.
~Steven Wright

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
~Albert Einstein

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
~Albert Einstein

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Glass Table:

@Wordgrove Library: Christone’s new cornucopia of video links (far east end of Wordgrove) includes this link:   Michael Wilson of There.com on the CBS Early Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2tJ1lmuTDA&index=47&list=PL487BEA0E63C711DB

 

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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
~Werner Heisenberg

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.
~Jim Lovell

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
~Arthur C Clarke

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny…”
~Isaac Asimov

 

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Exercise Prompt:   science

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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
~Werner Heisenberg

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.
~Jim Lovell

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
~Arthur C Clarke

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny…”
~Isaac Asimov

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The Exercise:

~BarTalk:

disqualified

science says
skies aren’t really blue
nor the eyes
while allowing
written tests for love
disallowing you and i

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faux definition #28

science.
the appliance of numbers
to questions in a language
verified reliant
but alien, often
in open defiance
of the heart

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science-be-damned definitions

Oort cloud: old Sol’s crowning halo composed solely of his most distant debris
—
Ort shelf: a protuberance just shy a paunch for catching fallen crumbs and spots of sauce

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5-7-5-7-7

strictures of science
speedbumps on the road of life
silent compliance
flesh, love, randy fantasies
chased life, chaste eternity

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5-7-5

curiosity
need to know the goad to go
alias: science

 

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All Science had its Errors in the Past.
‘Tis better Error should come First than Last.
~Arthur Guiterman

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
~Jules Verne

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.
~Lewis Thomas

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Until about a hundred years ago rational men lived like spies in an enemy country. They never walked abroad unless disguised in irony or allegory.
~Bergen Evans

Life is full of pus-wounds, headaches, bellyaches, and the sordidness of the world. The artist sees them differently, that’s all! The great men of science are supreme artists.
~Martin H Fischer

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
~Arthur Koestler

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
~Muriel Rukeyser

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
~Paul Valery

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
~Bruce Feirstein

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
~William Lawrence Bragg

Some things need to be believed to be seen.
~Guy Kawasaki

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It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.
~Georg C Lichtenberg

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
~W H Auden

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
~Albert Einstein

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Art is I; science is we.
~Claude Bernard

That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
~Bill Watterson

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
~Albert Einstein

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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
~Carl Sagan

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~Edwin Powell Hubble

 

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