A New Disease: Lack-O-Money

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There were times my pants were so thin that I could sit on a dime and tell if it were heads or tails. – Spencer Tracy




He who has no bread has no authority. – Turkish Proverb



We haven’t the money, so we’ve got to think. – Lord Rutherford



Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called a lack of money. – Francois Rabelais



I must say I hate money, but it’s the lack of it I hate most. – Katherine Mansfield



Necessity knows no Sunday. – Agnes Repplier

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A Theory Killed by an Ugly Fact

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Scientists are men who prolong life so we can have time to pay for the gadgets they invent. – anonymous



The man of science does not discover in order to know; he wants to know in order to discover. – Alfred North Whitehead



Science has not found a substitute for God. – Henry Drummond



Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory is killed by an ugly fact. – Thomas H. Huxley



Look at those cows and remember that the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk. – Michael Pupin



A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid. – Ernest Rutherford



Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. – Thomas Henry Huxley

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