Quoty Quotes

The last batch of 10 quotes is up for today. This will end the month of June and also the Quoty Quotes series. We have seen about 50 quotes in this series, out of which, 5 are my own ones and the others are of Famous Scientists and Philosophers.

1. Should I refuse to sleep because I cant fully understand sleeps and dreams?

Atharv Joshi

2. Just as proteins build our body, facts and knowledge come together to build what we call science.

Atharv Joshi

3. What is life? Nothing but a bunch of selfish living organisms... one eats the other and somebody eats the former.

Atharv Joshi

4. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

5. Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact.

Martin H. Fischer

6. Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

H.L. Mencken

7. The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Gerard Piel

8. The child is the Father of the Man.

William Wordsworth

9. There is no gravity. The earth sucks.

Graffito

10. Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

Abraham Flexner

Quoty Quotes

Today is the penultimate day for quotes:

1. Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

George Santayana

2. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith

3. Science has no definite explanation, but science defines everything.

Atharv Joshi

4. Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Claude Bernard

5. All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

Carl Sagan

Quoty Quotes

The 5 quotes for today will be succeeded by 5 quotes tomorrow:

1. I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding of a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Sir Isaac Newton

2. Facts Answer Everything.
Atharv Joshi

3. Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Martin Henry Fischer

4. I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. George Santayana

5. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

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The 5 Quoty Quotes for today are:

1. I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas Alva Edison

2. Telling a teen-ager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
Arnold H Glasgow

3. The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts

4. Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.
Martin H. Fischer

5. I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
Carl Sagan

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The 5 Quotes for today are the following:

1. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts.
Sherlock Holmes

2. Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?
Oliver Heaviside

3. In Science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurred.
Sir William Osler

4. The most incomprehensible thing about our universe is that it can be comprehended.
Albert Einstein

5. Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Henry Huxley

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5 More quotes based on facts and science today:

1. The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
Claude Bernard

2. The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein

3. Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact.
Martin H. Fischer

4. In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Hugh Walpole

5. Reason, Observation, and Experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.
Robert G. Ingersoll

Quoty Quotes

Today the series Quoty Quotes continues with 5 more quotes. Hope you have been enjoying these.

1. Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
Martin H. Fischer

2. The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
Claude Lévi-Strauss

3. In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.
Robert Brault

4. For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
Robert M. Pirsig

5. There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates

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5 more quoty quotes lined up for today:

1. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Henry J. Tillman

2. Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Edwin Powell Hubble

3. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith

4. The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

William Lawrence Bragg

5. Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Henri Poincare

Quoty Quotes

We have finally come to the end of the Summer Extravaganza and today we begin freshly with a new series called "Quoty Quotes". It will work like this: everyday 5 random quotes from the field of science will be posted along with the person in question. On the last day, 10 quotes will be posted, totaling to 50 quotes at the end of the series. The 5 quotes for today are:

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Edward Tenner

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan Perlis

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Linus Pauling

Summer Extravaganza - World Cup Mania

Today we have the last post for the World Cup Mania subseries and today we also end the Summer Extravaganza. It has really been a great factfull summer with the Factorium and 4 editions of the FactBook. Hope all of our readers have enjoyed the Fact Bonanza called Summer Extravaganza. Presenting before you the last fact on FIFA All-Star teams today....

The All-Star team is a select team of 23 best players chosen by FIFA's Technical Study group from the World Cup finals. It is commercially termed Mastercard All-Star Team. The number of players was expanded from 11 to 16 at the 1998 finals, and then to the current 23. Before 1998, journalists and experts chose a "Dream Team" with outstanding players from each playing position. The current format of an All-Star team has 3 Goalkeepers, 6 Defenders, 6 Midfielders and 4 Forwards, totaling to 19. The All-Star team for 2006 FIFA World Cup was:

Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Buffon, Jens Lehmann and Ricardo.

Defenders: Roberto Ayala, John Terry, Lilian Thuram, Phillipp Lahm, Gianluca Zambrotta and Ricardo Carvalho.

Midfielders: Ze Roberto, Ronaldinho, Zinedine Zidane, Michael Ballack, Francesco Totti and Luis Figo.

Forwards: Hernan Crespo, Thierry Henry, Miroslav Klose and Luca Toni.

A new subseries: "Quoty Quotes" starts tomorrow....

Summer Extravaganza - World Cup Mania

Today we will look at some facts on the Golden Boot or Golden Shoe award, which is one of the coveted award in FIFA World Cups.

The Golden Boot Award goes to the top goalscorer of the FIFA World Cup.

The award was introduced at the 1930 World Cup. The 1994 World Cup in the United States was the first time that Silver and Bronze boots awards were added to reward the second and third top scorers in the tournament. Since 1994, if there is more than one player with the same amount of goals, the tie-breaker goes to the player who has contributed the most assists (with the FIFA Technical Study Group deciding whether an assist is to be counted as such). If there is still more than one player, the tie-breaker goes to the player who has played the least amount of time.

So far, the highest goals scored in a World Cup are 13, by Just Fontaine of France in 1958. In the last world cup, Miroslav Klose won the Adidas Golden Shoe with 5 goals, followed by Hernan Crespo with 3 and Ronaldo with 3.

Summer Extravaganza - World Cup Mania

For the next 3 days, we will see facts on 3 of the prestigious awards presented by FIFA. We will today see some facts on the Golden Ball award, which is one of the prestigious awards presented at the FIFA World Cup.

This award was first given in 1982 as Golden, Silver and Bronze Ball. FIFA has also made a list of best players in the previous world cups. According to the list, Jose Nasazzi was the best player in the 1930 World Cup. The award is commercially termed "Adidas Golden Ball" and was presented to Zinedine Zidane of France in 2006. This was followed by Fabio Cannavaro and Andrea Pirlo. In 1982, Paolo Rossi of Spain was presented the first ever Golden Ball followed by Falcao of Brazil with the Silver Ball and Karl-Heinz of Germany with the Bronze Ball.

We will see interesting facts on the Golden Boot and All-star team in the remaining 2 days' time.

Summer Extravaganza - World Cup Mania

We continue the World Cup Mania today with something to do with awards concerning the FIFA World Cup.

There are a total of 7 awards/recognitions currently that are attributed to the players and teams which have distinguished from the rest, in different aspects of the game. These are:

1. The Golden Ball (currently commercially termed "adidas Golden Ball") for the best player. Also, the runners-up get the Silver and Bronze Ball for 2nd and 3rd Place respectively.
2. The Golden Shoe (also known as the Golden Boot, since 1982 commercially termed "adidas Golden Shoe") was first awarded in 1930 for top goal scorer. Also, Silver and Bronze shoes have been awarded since 1982.
3. The Yashin Award for best goalkeeper (first awarded in 1994).
4. The Best Young Player (currently commercially termed as "Gillette Best Young Player") award for best player under 21 years of age at the start of the calendar year, first awarded in 2006.
5. The FIFA Fair Play Trophy for the team with the best record of fair play (first awarded in 1970).
6. The Most Entertaining Team award for the team that has entertained the public the most, during the World Cup final tournament, as determined by a poll of the general public, first awarded in 1994.
7. An All-Star Team (currently commercially termed "Mastercard All-Star Team") comprising of the best players of the tournament, is also announced for each tournament since 1990.

3 More days of Exciting World Cup Mania left....

Summer Extravaganza - World Cup Mania

Today is the last day of facts on the FIFA World Cup 2010. But we will be continuing our World Cup mania till the 21st of June i.e till the end of the Summer Extravaganza. Today we will have a look at the 'official' things of the World Cup 2010.

The official mascot for the 2010 FIFA World Cup is Zakumi, an anthromorphosised leopard with green hair, presented on 22 September 2008. His name comes from "ZA", the international abbreviation for South Africa, and "kumi", a word that means "ten" in various African languages. The mascot's colours reflect those of the host nation's playing strip – yellow and green. Zakumi's official motto is 'Zakumi's Game is Fair Play.'

The official song of the FIFA world cup "Waka Waka" is presented by the Colombian singer Shakira and the band Freshlyground from South Africa, and is sung in both English and Spanish.

The official match ball for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, manufactured by Adidas, will be named the Jabulani, which means "bringing joy to everyone" in isiZulu.

The official FIFA World Cup sponsors are Budweiser, Castrol, Continental, McDonalds, MTN, Mahindra Satyam, Seara and Yingli Solar.

The official Prize money on offer for the tournament was confirmed by FIFA as $420 million, a 60 percent increase on the 2006 tournament. Before the tournament, each participating team would receive $1 million, for preparation costs. Once at the tournament, teams exiting at the group stage would receive $8 million. Thereafter, the prize money would be distributed as follows:

1. $9 million - Round of 16

2. $18 million - Quarter Finals

3. $20 million - Semi Finals

4. $24 million - Runners Up

5. $30 million - Winners.

That brings us to the end of facts on the World Cup of Association Football 2010. More World Cup Mania tomorrow....

Summer Extravaganza - World Cup Mania

Today we will be reading facts on the venues for the FIFA World Cup 2010 and tomorrow about the Official Masoct, Football, Anthem and more. Let us begin today then!

The 10 venues are

1.Soccer City, Johannesburg

2. Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban

3. Cape town Stadium, Cape Town

4. Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg

5. Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria

6. Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth

7. Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein

8. Peter Mokaba Stadium, Polokwane

9. Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg

10. Mbombela Stadium, Nelspruit.

More World Cup Mania tomorrow....

Summer Extravaganza - World Cup Mania

For the next 3 days we will see about the FIFA World Cup 2010.

The ongoing FIFA World Cup 2010 is the 19th FIFA World Cup of Football. It will run from 11th June - 11th July. The qualification of the World Cup began with 204 member nations, matching the 2008 Summer Olympics. Also, this is the first time that an African nation has got hosting duties. In the Final tournament of the World Cup, 32 nations will be participating with 4 teams from AFC, 3 from CONCACAF, 13 from UEFA, 5 from CONMEBOL, 1 from OFC and 6 from CAF. We already saw about these associations yesterday.

A total of 10 venues will host the 64 matches to be played. See this innovative FIFA World Cup schedule calendar on this link.

More FIFA World Cup 2010 Coming tomorrow....

Summer Extravaganza - World Cup Mania

We now come to the Presidents of FIFA on this last day of facts on FIFA. Till date there have been 8 presidents, these are:

Robert Guerin - 1904-1906

Daniel Burley Woolfall - 1906-1918

Jules Rimet - 1921-1954

Rodolphe Seeldrayers - 1954-1955

Arthur Drewry - 1955-1961

Stanley Rous - 1961-1974

Joao Havelange - 1974-1998

Sepp Blatter - 1998-Till Date

More World Cup Mania tomorrow....

Summer Extravaganza - World Cup Mania

Today we will look at more facts on FIFA, the world governing body of Association Football. We will today see about the structure of FIFA and tomorrow about its presidents.

FIFA is an association established under the Laws of Switzerland. Its headquarters are in Zürich. FIFA's supreme body is the FIFA Congress, an assembly made up of representatives from each affiliated member association. Aside from its worldwide institutions (presidency, Executive Committee, Congress, etc.) there are confederations recognised by FIFA which oversee the game in the different continents and regions of the world. These are:

AFC - Asian Football Confederation in Asia and Australia.

CAF - Confédération Africaine de FootbalL in Africa.

CONCACAF - Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football In North and Central America.

CONMEBOL - Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol in South America.

OFC - Oceania Football Confederation in Oceania.

UEFA - Union of European Football Associations in Europe.

More FIFA tomorrow....

Summer Extravaganza - World Cup Mania

With the World Cup underway, everyone is celebrating the Football Fever, even the Factorium with its subseries, World Cup Mania. For the next 3 days we will have a look at the governing body of the FIFA World Cup, FIFA. We will see facts on FIFA for the next 3 days.

FIFA Abbreviates to Fédération Internationale de Football Association or the International Federation of Association Football. It is basically the international governing body of Association Football like ICC for Cricket. The current president of FIFA is Sepp Blatter. Till Date there were 8 presidents in office with the first one being Robert Guerin from 1904-1906. Its motto is "For the Game, for the World." FIFA has 208 member associations, which is 16 more than the United Nations and three more than the International Olympic Committee, though five fewer than the International Association for Athletics Federation. FIFA governs football's major world tournaments, notably the FIFA World Cup. Its headquarters are in Switzerland, Zurich. If you were wondering what "Association Football" is, let me assure you that Football and Soccer are general names of the sport and that Association Football is the 'real' name of the game.

More FIFA tomorrow....

Summer Extravaganza - World Cup Mania

We will see the bids from 1974-2010 World Cups today.

1974, 1978, 1982: In an odd set of circumstances, three hosts were chosen in London, England on July 6, 1966. West Germany and Spain bid in 1974 with West Germany clinching the bid as Spain withdrew. Argentina and Mexico bid for the 1978 World Cup and Argentina won as Mexico withdrew. Spain and West Germany bid for 1982 World Cup and West Germany withdrew in line of 1974 Hosting Duties as Spain had done in 1974 in line for 1982 Hosting Duties.

1986: Columbia won the bid after an unopposed bidding process. However, Columbia later withdrew due to financial problems and Mexico, Canada and USA then Bid with Mexico emerging winners.

1990: England, Greece, Italy and Soviet Union bid, with Italy winning the vote against England after the others dropped out.

1994: Brazil, Morocco and USA bid, with USA emerging winners after winning the voting process.

1998: France, Morocco and Switzerland bid with France emerging victorious after winning 11 votes while Morocco and Switzerland getting 7 votes.

2002: Korea Republic, Japan and Mexico bid and for the first time, a joint bid was formed y Japan and South Korea which got the hosting duties after an oral voting.

2006: Brazil, England, Germany, Morocco and South Africa bid with Germany winning against the others in a voting process.

2010: Egypt, Libya/Tunisia, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa Bid. Libya and Tunisia withdrew and South Africa won with 14 votes against Nigeria's 10 and Egypt's 0.

Summer Extravaganza - World Cup Mania

Today we will look at an unique and behind-the-clouds aspect of the FIFA World Cup that is perhaps most important. You guessed it Right - Bidding. We will look at the different bids for the world cups. We will look at 1930-1970 world cups today and 1974-2010 world cups tomorrow. The Format is Year, Aspiring Hosts, Winner.

1930: The aspiring hosts were Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Uruguay. Uruguay won the bid after withdrawls for the other bidders.

1934: Only Italy and Sweden bid and as Sweden withdrew, Italy were the hosts.

1938: Argentina, France and Germany were the bidders. Argentind emerged victorious after getting 19 votes.

1950: Brazil had the bid for the 1942 world cup but because of the WWII it couldn't host then. So it was given the bid to host the 1950 World Cup.

1954: Same with Switzerland. Initial hosts for 1946, granted in 1954.

1958: Sweden got the bid after the bidding process went yet again, unopposed.

1962: Argentina, Chile and West Germany. West Germany withdrew and Argentina lost to Chile in voting.

1966: England, West Germany and Sweden were the bidders. England won after securing 34 votes after Spain withdrew.

1970: There were 2 bidders - Argentina and Mexico. Mexico won the bid in voting, with 56 votes.

We will see the remainder of Bidding tomorrow....