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We could discuss this for hours, but I think it would be more FUN, and easier for me, if you just stewed on it for a while.
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Bob Jaffe, 8.05 (Quantum Physics II)
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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submitted: November 25, 2003 |
After over 17 weeks in quantum mechanics courses, the plain weirdness of quantum mechanical prediections finally began to look really weird, like, the stuff that no one can really explain. And he didn't want to explain :)
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It's even more exciting because that's the way the world really is.
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Bob Jaffe, 8.05 (Quantum Physics II)
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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submitted: November 25, 2003 |
(regarding the anti-correlation of phi decay)
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Symmetry arguments can be really powerful. There's one on your problem set. All you have to do is think about it for a minute, well, five minutes, well, all you have to do is think about it.
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Bob Jaffe, 8.05 (Quantum Physics II)
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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submitted: November 25, 2003 |
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One man's intuition is another man's computer program.
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Bob Jaffe, 8.05 (Quantum Physics II)
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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submitted: November 25, 2003 |
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"But with Samson Agonistes, we have a book that presents a morally reprehensible idea, whereas of course Thriller presents a very wholesome philosophy"
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Joel Slotkin, IHUM 55: Literature of Crisis
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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submitted: November 25, 2003 |
The question was should a piece of literature be banned simply because it or its author is morally "bad"
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"Before class, you should be in the bathroom shooting up with adrenaline"
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Dr. Catchepole, Psych 130
NIC, ,
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submitted: November 25, 2003 |
so..we were discussing how adrenaline boosts your ability to remember things, and this just came out as advice to those who really want to pass
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Mr. Murphy:Now we are going to do some momentum questions with cars.
(Draws a car up)
Mr. Murphy:Now, We have this pimp moble here
(Points to car)
Mr. Murphy:Hmmm, that's not a pimp mobile.
(Adds massive exaust and "DOOF DOOF" marks)
Mr. Murphy:It's fully sick mate.
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Mr. Murphy, Year 11 Physics.
Good Sheperd Lutheran College, Noosa, Queensland, Australia
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submitted: November 24, 2003 |
Best teacher ever.
I'm going to record his songs one day, he has heaps about physics.
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“Some archaeological reports are just like eating a dust sandwich.”
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Andy Overman, Archaeology
Macalester College, St Paul, MN
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submitted: November 22, 2003 |
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“Archaeology, among other things, is obsessed with dating.”
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Andy Overman, Archaeology
Macalester College, St Paul, MN
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submitted: November 22, 2003 |
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“Your initial assumption is that this language makes sense. Again and again you will be disappointed.”
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John Haiman, Linguistic Analysis
Macalester College, St Paul, MN
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submitted: November 22, 2003 |
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"That's the difference between girls and science. You live for science and die for a girl."
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Csaba Szabó, Galois Theory
Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary
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submitted: November 22, 2003 |
A reference to the productive life and untimely death of Évariste Galois.
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"I was misquoted."
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Dr. Steven Vibbert, Introduction to Public Relations
Butler University, Indianapolis, IN
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submitted: November 22, 2003 |
Remarks to finding one of his quotes on profquotes.com
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If it feels like I'm preaching, I'm not, because I don't care about anything but basketball.
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Jim Laine, Intro to East Asian Studies
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
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submitted: November 21, 2003 |
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Why do you need a bunch of castrated men running around court?
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Jim Laine, Intro to East Asian Studies
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
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submitted: November 21, 2003 |
...regarding the presence of eunuchs on the courts of ancient China.
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Tree frogs. We have three tree frogs... and millions of pink toads!
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Stephen Burt, Superheroes
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
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submitted: November 21, 2003 |
...regarding the "pink toads" statement somewhere in Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim."
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You don't want a big penis flappin' around in the water if you're a giant whale.
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Tim Watkins, Evolution
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
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submitted: November 21, 2003 |
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He didn't sort of BREW a girl by putting together a trout and marshmallows and graham crackers.
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Stephen Burt, Superheroes
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
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submitted: November 21, 2003 |
...regarding the 'creation' of the girl in W.B. Yeats' poem "Song of the Wandering Aengus."
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I mean, we all started out in a uterus... without a zipper.
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Tim Watkins, Evolution
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
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submitted: November 21, 2003 |
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If you all came over to my house you couldn't all come over to my house because you wouldn't fit.
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Stephen Burt, Superheroes
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
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submitted: November 21, 2003 |
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I bet it's something better than a muffin, but not as interesting as a plane ticket to anywhere in the world.
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Stephen Burt, Superheroes
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
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submitted: November 21, 2003 |
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I'm sure I'm just giving myself a skin disease, but there's no other way to clean this dry-erase board!
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Stephen Burt, Superheroes
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
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submitted: November 21, 2003 |
...why one shouldn't use one's arm to clean the deadly dry-erase board.
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What's the point of bringing this up in the poem - other than 'OOO! Christ figure!' High school English teachers have an orgasm right there.
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David Wilson-Okamura, Crafts of Writing: Poetry
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
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submitted: November 21, 2003 |
| Rating: 10 |
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I've seen an essrog! I've held an essrog in my hands! ...It's not sexual.
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Stephen Burt, Contemporary American Literature
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
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submitted: November 21, 2003 |
...regarding the meaning of the main character's last name in Jonathan Lethem's "Motherless Brooklyn."
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No, we wouldn't want to have any flaming virgins... very distracting.
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David Wilson-Okamura, Crafts of Writing: Poetry
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
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submitted: November 21, 2003 |
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It's my priveledge, as an English professor, to reduce everything to sex.
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David Wilson-Okamura, Crafts of Writing: Poetry
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
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submitted: November 21, 2003 |
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