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• A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion. -- Henry L. Mencken

• Garbage to ten decimal places is still garbage. -- anon

• Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should. -- anon

• Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. -- Josh Billings

• Genius is childhood recalled at will. -- Charles Baudelaire

• Genius is eternal patience. -- Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percents perspiration. Accordingly, a "genius" is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework. -- Thomas Alva Edison (Spoken statement c. 1903, published in Harper's Monthly, 1932)

• Genius is personality with two pennies of talent. -- Pablo Picasso

• Genius, n.: Person clever enough to be born in the right place at the right time of the right sex and to follow up this advantage by saying all the right things to all the right people. -- Graham Storr (The Fairly Concise New Scientist Magazine Dictionary, of scientific words in current use) [Online]

• Geometry is a skill of the eyes and the hands as well as of the mind. -- Jean Pedersen

• Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. -- Mark Twain

• GIGO, ac.: (Databases) Garbage In, Garbage Out. (Management) Garbage In, Gospel Out. -- anon

• Ginsberg's Theorem: (1) You can't win. (2) You can't break even. (3) You can't even quit the game. -- Matt Ginsberg [commentary]

• Given a choice between two theories, take the one that is funnier. -- Blore's Razor

• Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest. -- Eric Clapton

• Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down. -- Ray Bradbury (Brown Daily Herald, 1995)

• The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice. -- Oscar Wilde

• God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. -- Albert Einstein (L. Infeld Quest, 1942)

• God is to be found in the details. -- Aby Warburg

• God is like a skilful Geometrician. -- Thomas Browne (Religio Medici, 1643) [online]

• The Golden Rule of Arts and Sciences: The one who has the gold makes the rules. -- anon

• Good artists copy. Great artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso

• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. -- Wendell Willkie

• Good design is good business. -- Thomas J. Watson

• A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough. -- William James (The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902)

• Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. -- Frederick P. Brooks

• A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. -- John E.Littlewood (A Mathematician's Miscellany, 1953)

• Good mathematicians see analogies between theorems or theories, the very best ones see analogies between analogies. -- Stefan Banach (in Adventures of a Mathematician, by Stanislaw M. Ulam, 1976)

• A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress. -- Douglas Coupland

• A good preparation takes longer than the delivery. -- E. Kim Nebeuts (in Return to Mathematical Circles, by Howard W. Eves, 1988)

• A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions. -- Frederick Seitz (Fortune, 1976)

• A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. -- Freeman Dyson (Disturbing the Universe, 1979)

• Gordon's first law: If a research project is not worth doing, it is not worth doing well. -- anon

• The graduate student, Condylura cristata, is a small North American mole found in eastern Canada and the north-eastern United States. It is the only member of genus Condylura. Habitat: It lives in wet lowland areas and eats small invertebrates, aquatic insects, worms and molluscs. It is a good swimmer and can forage along the bottoms of streams and ponds. Like other moles, this animal digs shallow surface tunnels for foraging; often, these tunnels exit underwater. It is active day and night and remains active in winter, where it has been observed tunnelling through the snow and swimming in ice-covered streams. Little is known about the social behavior of the species, but it is suspected that it is colonial. [...] Predators: include the Red-tailed Hawk, Principle Investigators, Great Horned Owl, skunks, various mustelids and even large fish. -- Uncyclopedia [online]

• The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein (Life, 1950)

• Grantarctica, n.: The cold, isolated place where scientists without funding dwell. -- anon

• Graph, n.: Diagram used to disguise the relationship between two variables. -- Graham Storr (The Fairly Concise New Scientist Magazine Dictionary, of scientific words in current use) [Online]

• Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein

• The great book of nature is written in mathematical symbols. -- Galileo Galilei (16th C.)

• Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential. -- Thomas J. Watson

• Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. -- Alexander Graham Bell

• A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest, but if it challenges your curiosity and brings into play your inventive faculties, and if you solve it by your own means, you may experience the tension and enjoy the triumph of discovery. -- George Polyá (How to Solve It, 1945)

• Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds. -- Francesco Petrarca a.k.a. Petrarch

• Great minds have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -- Albert Einstein

• Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. -- Washington Irving

• The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. -- Jean Baudrillard

• Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision. -- Stephen Jay Gould (Eight Little Piggies, 1993)

• The great tragedy of science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley (Collected Essays: Biogenesis and Abiogenesis, 1893)

• A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth. -- Thomas Mann (Essay on Freud, 1937)

• Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. -- Samuel Johnson

• The greatest discoveries all start with the question "WHY?" -- Robert Duane Ballard

• The greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, pervasive, and unrealistic. -- John F. Kennedy

• The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. -- Daniel Boorstin

• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -- Walter Bagehot

• The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that. -- Franz Ernst Neumann

• Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality. -- Stephen Jay Gould (Bully for Brontosaurus, 1991)

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