In
this section you will find short but very meaningful pieces of information,
little informative pills and quotations with important messages.
"Lo bueno, si breve, dos
veces bueno"
["What is good, if brief,
is twice as good" i.e. Brevity is the soul of wit]
Baltasar Gracián
(1601-1658)
'...I have written this
letter longer than ususal because
I haven't the time to write
it shorter...'
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
"C'est avec la logique
que nous prouvons et avec l'intuition que nous trouvons."
'It is by logic that we
prove, but by intuition that we discover'
'Probamos a través
de la lógica pero descubrimos con la intuición.'
Jules Henri Poincaré
(1854-1912)
"Dans les champs de
l'observation, l´hazard ne favorise que les esprits préparés"
[When it comes to observation,
chance only favors the prepared minds.]
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
(Encyclopedia
Britannica, 1911, 11th Ed., Vol. 20)
D A T A , D A T A , D A T A
A regular
incandescent bulb uses only 10% of the energy in makinglight.
The
remaining 90% is lost as HEAT
A
few statistics
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Human
population increases in 222,000 people each day
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In our
world a new car is made every second. Go to sleep and tomorrow count 30,000
more new cars.
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A citizen
of New York City uses 3 times more water and generates 8 times more residues
than a citizen of Bombai.
' I have been asked if the
tragedy of a scientist is his ability to produce great advances in knowledge
that human kind can use to destroy. My answer is that that is not the tragedy
of the scientist: is the tragedy oh human kind.'
Leo Szilard (1898-1964)
[cited
by S.R. Weart and G.W. Szilard in "Leo Szilard: his version of the Facts",
MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.)1978, p.229]
' History is becoming more
and more a race between education and Catastrophe'
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946)'
[Cited
by Federico Mayor, 8 Feb. 1990] |
