Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods)

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. 
(Chinese proverb)

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born. 
(Robert Merton)

If you aren’t confused by quantum physics, then you haven’t really understood it. 
(Niels Bohr)

Good writing is rewriting.
(Truman Capote)

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
(Leon Trotsky)

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
(Samuel Johnson)

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
(Walter Bagehot)

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
(Wolcott Gibbs)

The moment when the finished book, or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.
(John Updike)

 

Long daily meetings will continue until we find out why no work is being done.