"Can you pick up some Tridentine Gum at the store for me?" JB
"If you believe someone who's infallible, the science works much better." BB
"Certitude isn't standing out there by itself without anyone knowing about it."
"There are good bees and there are bad bees, but most bees are what bees ought to be." Mr. B (no kidding)
"I can look at a chair and learn something from it, not accidentally, but the making of it wasn't meant to be an occasion for learning." Mr. B
"A circle is the most perfect figure, but not the most perfect form of argument." Mr. B
"Superman seems to violate the first principle of animal motion." Mr. B
"I can't help it if your imagination has been corrupted by experience." Mr. F
"This d--- Algebra gives you no benefit and takes up all your time." Mrs. G
"The last phrase of the Pange Lingua is like the Odyssey." Mr. F
"That's a wild hideous radical ambiguity." Mrs. G
"Unlike YOUR Algebra, his is sensible." Mrs. G
"That lust for cancellation is in me so strong that I want to get it up there." Mrs. G
"You need the drive to reproduce on a geometric level." Mr. P
"Men are nogood as numbers because you can't break them in half." Mrs. G
"If you never stop increasing the sides, how can you roll it?" SS
"People are dense, buffalos are rare." SS
"If you fell 100 feet without a parachute, you'd get hurt and break all your legs." SS
"Let's see, the pain does something to your nature... and the train does something to your nature." PC
"Descartes was a Mathematician as you can see from all the Math he uses. And that's why he uses a lot of Math in his Philosophy." JJ
"The doctor is to health as the shoemaker is to sore feet." SS
"Homer was blind." SS
"I'm not clear on what you mean by ambiguous." BB
"There are two female authors on the program - Jane Austen and MG - both known for Pride and Prejudice." RF
"If you don't think about eternal things and such, you're really, really ignorant, or 3 years old." JH
"I'm leaving the gods out of this. I'm still wondering about the gods myself." PF
"If that's generally accepted as a base thing..." JF
"Not everybody has passions for horrible deeds like insects." JJ
"How can it be legal? It's not calm and collected." JF
Let's face it - planes don't have weight." TH
"If you follow all of Mrs. G's rules for a Sonata, you could come up with a great tragedy." JJ
"Someone might come along and give you a kick, but they don't do it in their capacity to be desirable." Mr. B
"There's nothing you can see that's not there." Mr. B
"They deny final clause." MF
"Surround a perfect knower with some angry knowers shouting out answers to him and he won't get any more knowledge." Mr. B
"It's my experience that nobody knows what they're talking about except me." Mrs. G
"I'm a bundle. Most definitely." JO
"The question of whether you're a bundle isn't something we have to attack." Mrs. G
"The earth's flat and it doesn't move." BB
"We don't have to make ourselves morons. We can just use the picture." Mrs. G
"I was wondering where you got x from. Did you just will that, or what?" SS
"You could say someone pigs-out on concerts, but that's not using 'pig-out' in the strict sense." Dr. D
Law IV of Motivation
Every student continues in his/her own state of studying and enjoying Lab or of rest, unless he/she is compelled to change by oppressive forces. JVH
"You know we disagree on this." EW
"Well, that's what we're here for." JF
"If you think about it at all, it makes perfect sense. That's all." EW to Mr. H
"That's fine Mr. J, I don't want to discuss your personal fortune right now. I have no fortune." MF
"to be is greater than not to be." JO
"How big is an infinitely small length?" Dr. R
"A dot." JO
"Maybe geometry is about light." SW
"Perfect fools must abound in all sorts of deficiencies." Mr. B
"All girls are evil, either actually or potentially." PC
"All boys are evil, either probably or certainly." Mr. B
"Maybe it comes from physics, and maybe it comes from cooking eels in a stew." Mrs. G
"Descartes is not a charitable math. And he doesn't have a charitable face." Mrs. G
"I hate to waste my engineers on easy ones." Mrs. G
"No mysterious ghosts of departed quantities..." Mrs. G
"On page two... that's the second page, for those of you who don't have page numbers." Mr. P
"Don't let any ideas ruin the free flow of your conversation." Dr. M
"When we delight in something, do we hold it and go into a coma?" TH
"There are less eternal things now than there used to be." Dr. K
"It's both annoying and delightful." Dr. F
"OK. You can have vice if you want to." Mr. P
"He created the world ex nihil. So there's nihil sitting over there." RD
"What is reality? I guess I don't understand." DB
"Jumping on a chair when you see a mouse is not cowardice." BB
"It's prudence." Dr. D
"Maybe we have a different idea of what 'long' is." BC
"What would you say about that graphically? Oh... I'm not asking for obscenities." Dr. F
F&W
The Great Insaturation
Rhetoritician
Nutrify
Hyperabola
Simular Figulars
Equitable Motion
Universally Accelerated Motion
Velosophy
Annus Domino
Shphere
Segundum Rem
Volocity
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"If you believe someone who's infallible, the science works much better." BBWhich infallible then? Urban VIII and Pius IX, notable for stances against heliocentrism and darwinospencerism - or more recent ones, as notable for stances for them?
They weren't actually talking about popes at the time, it was simply a funny off-shoot that didn't quite work. I don't remember more particulars at this point.
But as far as the popes on science are concerned, the stances by the popes you mentioned were not give "ex cathedra" and thus were not infallible statements. "Ex cathedra" tends to be used quitey sparingly.
P.S. Forgot to mention that matters of science do not strictly speaking fall under "faith and morals", so would not qualify for an "ex cathedra" position anyway.
In that case ... John Paul II and Benedict XVI are not endorsing evolution (and, a fortiori, heliocentrism) ex cathedra either?
If one believes evolution from fish to amphibian and revolution of earth around sun erroneous, one is still free, even as a R. C., to be geocentric and young earth creationist?
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