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Post by nick_stoke on Mar 16, 2009 13:06:41 GMT
I've just finished my PhD and about to submit the final version of my thesis to the library. It is tradition to stick a quote at the start only I'm struggling to find a good one. PhD was in physics so a science related one would be the convention but one from a stokie legend would be cool. Anyone got any suggestions?
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Post by RAF on Mar 16, 2009 13:08:47 GMT
'It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid'.
Albert Einstein.
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Post by Bick on Mar 16, 2009 13:09:32 GMT
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Post by stokie25 on Mar 16, 2009 13:11:36 GMT
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. - Tony Pulis 2008 ....unless you are a Physicist  |
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Post by JoeinOz on Mar 16, 2009 13:13:32 GMT
When a finger points to the moon, the fools admire the finger.
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Post by assessornum1 on Mar 16, 2009 13:14:51 GMT
Dont eat yellow snow
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 16, 2009 13:26:13 GMT
"A Vale fan is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah." - Ronald Reagan
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2009 14:11:36 GMT
Can't find and Stoke ones. There are some vaguely physics related:
'He went through a non-existant gap.' - CLIVE TYLDESLEY
'The pace of the match is really accelerating, by which I mean it is getting faster all the time.' - DAVID COLEMAN
'The silence is getting louder.' - DAVE WOODS
'He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.' - TONY GUBBA
From another dimension completely is this one:
Tony Mowbray: "It's no good having money in the bank and no good players out on the pitch."
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 16, 2009 14:20:06 GMT
"and there is Ola Petrova from Romania, I tip her as a future champion.
I saw her snatch this morning, and it was magnificent" (David Coleman)
"Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew." (Harry Carpenter)
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Post by Kirstendunstslovebubbles on Mar 16, 2009 14:23:41 GMT
Type the name Randy Pauch on Youtube and watch his video. Absolutely fantastic mate
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Post by nick_stoke on Mar 16, 2009 14:27:11 GMT
cheers guys, some great quotes here. The david coleman one is hilarious not quite sure its appropriate for a thesis though  |
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 16, 2009 14:38:21 GMT
Delapsears, is that a bit of wayward unkempt bush popping out of Kirsten's, Alan Whickers, on the picture on the right?
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Post by RAF on Mar 16, 2009 14:42:10 GMT
'OH FUCK'
Captain Edward John Smith, RD, RNR
Captain of the Titanic
Born in Hanley
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Post by serpico on Mar 16, 2009 14:52:15 GMT
coupe of obvious Einstein and Newton ones I always like to use-
"for every action there is a equal and opposite reaction"
"you cannot solve a problem using the same methods which caused it".
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Post by PerCyfilth ....Captains Log on Mar 16, 2009 14:52:58 GMT
Physics is like sex; sure it may give some practical results but its not why you do it...,Richard Feynman
Four thirds of all people dont understand fractions....Stephen Wright
They asked me in the phsyics exam what the Uncertainty Principle was. I answered that i wasnt quite sure. Simon Davidson
Einsteins Law supercedes Newtons Law, Murphys Law supercedes Einsteins Law..........Arthur Carroll
The Bureau of Incomplete Statistics report that one in three... Aidan Moran
If the Universe is expanding why cant i find a parking space? ....Woody Allen
Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that goes down can come up.....George Burns
Its only when you look at an Ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day you realise how often they burst into flames......Harry Hill
Hey ! You Pulis hating wankstains.........mcf
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Post by Kirstendunstslovebubbles on Mar 16, 2009 15:34:39 GMT
Ha ha quality only just noticed that, she's still one for the wank bank though ;D
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Post by Kenilworth_Stokies on Mar 16, 2009 15:50:14 GMT
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Albert Einstein
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw
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Post by bigroy on Mar 16, 2009 16:17:27 GMT
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Albert Einstein "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw tony mowbray? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2009 16:41:50 GMT
One of my favourites is Georgie Bests
'I spent a fortune on cars, booze and birds, the rest I squandered'
Priceless !
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Post by mica on Mar 16, 2009 18:27:41 GMT
No problem is so big that you can't run away from it.
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 16, 2009 18:46:53 GMT
I think this is one of Pulis's
If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there
I might be mistaken though....
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Post by Trouserdog on Mar 16, 2009 20:08:10 GMT
I've just finished my PhD and about to submit the final version of my thesis to the library. It is tradition to stick a quote at the start only I'm struggling to find a good one. PhD was in physics so a science related one would be the convention but one from a stokie legend would be cool. Anyone got any suggestions? 
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Post by lawrieleslie on Mar 16, 2009 22:31:20 GMT
I like "There are 3 kinds of people on Gods Earth. Those who can count and those who can't...."
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Post by corkster on Mar 16, 2009 22:32:38 GMT
Yes that is quite inspirational.
But here's another quote from a Stokie
"If anybody ever tells you anything about an aeroplane which is so bloody complicated you can't understand it, take it from me: it's all balls. ”
— R. J. Mitchell
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Post by bunnyscfc on Mar 16, 2009 22:45:50 GMT
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato into a fruit salad.
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Post by powchirper on Mar 16, 2009 22:51:36 GMT
We defo need an away win.
Chirper 16/3/09
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Post by tommywalker on Mar 16, 2009 22:51:43 GMT
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can
be no more hurt, only more love.
~Mother Teresa
Rumour has it she was a lifelong Stokie
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Post by NYCP on Mar 16, 2009 22:51:45 GMT
I actually signed mine off with 'SCFCTID' under my name. Only told my supervisor what it was all about after all the copies were submitted  also in Physics - semiconductors. What field is your? |
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Post by nick_stoke on Mar 16, 2009 22:59:05 GMT
I actually signed mine off with 'SCFCTID' under my name. Only told my supervisor what it was all about after all the copies were submitted also in Physics - semiconductors. What field is your? haha like it. pretty similar, surface science / biophysics. glad its over to be honest mate, as soon as this is submitted i don't think i ever want to look at it again. |
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Post by shiny nosehair on Mar 16, 2009 23:11:51 GMT
Stolen from Ghostface/Will_scfc's signiature
Metaphorically, the 'Midas touch' is defined as someone of good fortune, for whom everything they touch "turns to gold".
Tony Scholes is said to have the 'Andrex touch.'
Always makes me giggle
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