Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods)

Quips and Quotes

News and Notes:

Bio-Blitz 2006

Activities at the Entomological Societies' meeting

CMN workshop on Strategic Planning for a BSC

Summary of the Scientific Committee meeting

Project Update: Symposia and Workshops organized by the BSC

The Quiz Page

Ensuring the safety of biological control in Canada

Web site notes

Arctic Corner

Black fly diversity in Norman Wells
From the ASTIS databse

Selected future conferences

Quips and Quotes

Requests for Material or Information Invited

If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.
(Anon)

Think today and speak tomorrow.
(Proverb)

Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.
(William of Ockham)

Winnow while the wind is blowing.
(Japanese saying)

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
(John Steinbeck)

 

An unexpected fact is less readily absorbed than one which was expected.
(Norman F. Dixon)

The facts we see depend on where we are placed, and the habits of our eyes.
(Walter Lippmann)

People see only what they are prepared to see.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Data will arrange themselves to fit preconceived conclusions.
(George E. Reedy)

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don’t, it is easier to ignore the facts than change the preconceptions.
(Jessamyn West)