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Harry Houdini Quotes

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

Let’s celebrate the birthday of the greatest magician in the world in our own way, with quotes. Today, let me share with you some great Harry Houdini Quotes.

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

The great day of the Fire-eater – or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater – has passed.

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

Niels Bohr Quotes

Posted on March 21, 2010 by

– “A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.”

– “An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.”

– “An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.”

– “Einstein, stop telling God what to do!”

– “Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”

– “Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.”

– “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”

– “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”

– “If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.”

– “If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.”

– “It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.”

– “Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.”

– “No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.”

– “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”

– “Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.”

– “The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.”

– “The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.”

– “There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.”

– “There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”

– “We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.”