From 43e3f325f8fc86ae45d4dc0ca135bf892ff64f27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Don Armstrong Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:13:15 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] add illinois template and science quotes --- signature_stuff/illinois_sigtemplate.txt | 4 +++ signature_stuff/science_quotes.txt | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+) create mode 100644 signature_stuff/illinois_sigtemplate.txt create mode 100644 signature_stuff/science_quotes.txt diff --git a/signature_stuff/illinois_sigtemplate.txt b/signature_stuff/illinois_sigtemplate.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..844d3c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/signature_stuff/illinois_sigtemplate.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +-- +Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com + +[% quote %] diff --git a/signature_stuff/science_quotes.txt b/signature_stuff/science_quotes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1261590 --- /dev/null +++ b/signature_stuff/science_quotes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +If you wish to strive for peace of soul, then believe; if you wish to +be a devotee of truth, then inquire. + -- Friedrich Nietzsche +% +The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one +day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and +that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game. + -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §11 +% +[A] theory is falsifiable [(and therefore scientific) only] if the +class of its potential falsifiers is not empty. + -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §21 +% +I shall require that [a scientific system's] logical form shall be +such that it can be singled out, by means of empirical tests, in a +negative sense: it must be possible for an empirical scientific system +to be refuted by experience. + -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6 +% +He wore trifocals. There was stratigraphy even in his glasses. + -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p364 +% +"Old hypotheses never really die, they're like dormant volcanoes." + -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p313 +% +"While geologists argue, the rocks just sit there and sometimes they +seem to smile" + -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p304 +% +[T]he question of whether Machines Can Think, [...] is about as +relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim. + -- Edsger W. Dijkstra "The threats to computing science" -- 2.39.2