Winston Churchill
Tom's Quotes
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.  But it is,
perhaps, the end of the beginning."  
(Speech in November, 1942)
                                                      --Winston Churchill
A lie told often enough becomes the
truth.                  --Lenin
You cannot simultaneously prevent
and prepare for war.
--Albert Einstein
The only winner in the War of
1812 was Tchaikowsky.
--Solomon Short
Hiram W. Johnson      
The first casualty when war comes is truth.  
--Senator Hiram W. Johnson
(He died on August 6, 1945...the day the first atomic bomb
was dropped on Hiroshima.)
Aristotle    
All men by nature desire knowledge.
    --Aristotle
Martin Luther King Jr.  
Our scientific power has outrun our
spiritual power.  We have guided
missiles and misguided men.
--Martin Luther King Jr.
George Santayana
Lenin     
General Omar Bradley
The way to win
an atomic war is
to make certain
it never starts.
--General Omar
Bradley
Albert Einstein
Jimmy Carter           
War may sometimes be a necessary
evil.  But no matter how necessary, it
is always an evil, never a good.  We
will not learn how to live together in
peace by killing each other's children.     
          --Jimmy Carter
Stephen Jay Gould
In science, "fact" can only mean
"confirmed to such a degree
that it would be perverse to
withold provisional assent."  I
suppose that apples might start
to rise tomorrow, but the
possibility does not merit equal
time in physics classrooms.
--Stephen Jay Gould
Socrates
The only good is knowledge and the
only evil is ignorance.
--Socrates



Civilization begins with order,
grows with liberty,
and dies with chaos.
--Will Durant
Benjamin Franklin                  
Those who would give up
essential liberty to purchase a
little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty
nor safety.
--Ben Franklin
Those who cannot
remember the past are
condemned to repeat it.
                           
--George Santayana
1905
Counter
"Travel is fatal to prejudice,
bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."
-- Mark Twain
"Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work
of many generations, produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labor in every
country of the world.  All this is put into your hands as your inheritance in
order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it
to your children.  Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent
things which we create in common."  
-- Albert Einstein, address to a group of children, 1934
I maintain there is more wonder in
science than in pseudoscience.  And
in addition, to whatever measure this
term has any meaning, science has
the additional virtue, and it is not an
inconsiderable one, of being true.      
---Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
Doubt is not a pleasant
condition, but certainty is
absurd. --Voltaire
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetant.
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
The only constant is change, continuing
change, inevitable change; that is the
dominant factor in society today.
No sensible decision can be made any longer
without taking into account not only the
world as it is, but the world as it will be.
-- Isaac Asimov
Everything flows; nothing stands still.  _
--Heraclitus (535 BCE - 475 BCE)
There cannot be effective
government without compromise.  
Without any compromise, anarchy
eventually results.  I am for effective
government and against anarchy.
--Kathleen Gallier (Paris 2010)
You cannot have a
reasonable conversation
about an issue, if you do
not have reasonable
people involved in the
conversation.
--Tom Gallier (Paris 2010)
Caveat emptor is
prudent counsel for a
buyer, not a moral
guideline for a seller.
--Randy Cohen
The Ethicist Column
New York Times
Magazine
October 17, 2010