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Old 09-01-2010, 11:17 PM posted to aus.gardens
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Default OT - Climate change: ping jonno and David

I can see why Jonno argues with Dave Hare
In order not to reinvent the wheel, I give you these examples.
You may never realise who Jonno is, but he is a pain to be reckoned with....

George Bush quotes, (he wasnt kidding it seems)

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you
want to concentrate on. -- (spoken at a Washington Dinner, March 2001)
George Bush!

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about ways to harm our country and our people,
and neither do we.” (Washington DC; August 5, 2004.)

"Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter." --
George W. Bush, in parting words
http://politicalhumor.about.com/b/2008/07/11/bush-goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter.htm
to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy
at his final G-8 Summit, punching the air and grinning widely as the two
leaders looked on in shock,
Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 2008

"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what
happened inside this Oval Office." --
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008

On scientists

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?".

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. (So true look at water! And climate, if they get their way..)

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.


-- Albert Einstein

About Einstein:
You're aware the boy failed my grade school math class, I take it? And not
that many years later he's teaching college. Now I ask you: Is that the
sorriest indictment of the American educational system you ever heard?
[pauses to light cigarette.] No aptitude at all for long division, but
never mind. It's him they ask to split the atom. How he talked his way
into the Nobel prize is beyond me. But then, I suppose it's like the man
says, "It's not what you know..." Karl Arbeiter: former teacher of Albert
Einstein

Crikey, sour grapes from someone with no imagination, which if he had
had it, would have made him a greater man....A public servant "doing his
duty"?
Albert Einstein did, but it was his creative spirit and determination,
which allowed him to solve problems.Scientists all over the world,
should grow up in an atmosphere condusive to that,
and be free and to use their imagination. Actually we all should.
You've locked your selves up...and limiting yourself.
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And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that
soon they will be able to talk to us. (By they I mean computers: I doubt
scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

One could not be a successful scientist without realising that, in
contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers
of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded
and dull, but also just stupid.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually
winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the
opponents gradually die out.

In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all
need of checking, is the mistake.

No matter what the experiment's result, there will always be someone
eager to: (a) misinterpret it. (b) fake it. or (c) believe it supports
his own pet theory.

In science we are really good at disproving things and are very poor at
proving things. Theories like the Theory of Relativity go on and on
because no one can think of anything better.

If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. There's no use
being a damn fool about it.

Napoleon:
I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is
not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.