Quotable Quotes #2 - Scientifically Speaking Mystery Cache
Quotable Quotes #2 - Scientifically Speaking
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The second in a series of caches whose clues will based on quotes. The cache is not at the listed coordinates - the listed coordinates will take you where you can park your car while you search for the cache!
As I age, my memory for quotes is not what it used to be, but these quotes sound about right.
To Find the cache you must first determine who said each of these quotes and identify their Year of Birth (YoB) and their Year of Death (YoD) and their age (YoD-YoB).
Quotes :
A : "Science may set limits to lore, but should not set limits to inventiveness."
B : "There are in fact two things, science and conviction; the former begets lore, the latter obliviousness."
C : "All of physics is either unachievable or picayune. It is unachievable until you understand it, and then it becomes picayune."
D : "There are no such things as appertained sciences, only applications of science."
E : "The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new actualities as to discover new ways of thinking about them. "
F : "There is no acceptable defense, except stupidity, against the collision of a new idea."
G : "Those who are not thunderstruck when they first come across quantum mechanics cannot possibly have comprehended it."
H : "Impeccability about Science is the worst wrongdoing today.
I : "A little lore is a perilous thing. So is a lot."
Now for the Math :
M : (first 2 digits of YOD of A - first 2 digitis of YOB of A) + (last 2 digits of YOB of A- last 2 digits of YOD of A) + (first digit of age of A - last digit of age of A)
N : (last 2 digits of YOD of B - last 2 digits of YOB of B) - (first digit of YOB - first digit of YOD)
O : Age of C
P : sum of the digits of age of D - the third digit of YOD of D
Q : Age of E / (last 2 digits of YOD of E - last digit of YOB of E)
R : last digit of age of F - last digit of YOB of F
S : (first 2 digits of YOB of G - sum of digits in age of G) + last digit of YOD of G
T : (first digit of age of H - second digit of age of H) + first digit of YOB of H
U : (first digit of YOD of I + second digit of YOD of I - third digit of YOD of I - fourth digit of YOD of I) + last digit of YOB of I
Once you've got all those numbers, you need to plug them into :
N 43 MN.OP
W079 QR.STU
The cache is a peanut butter container with the usual dollar store goodies
You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.
Try the other Quotable Quote caches :
Quotable Quotes #1 - Politically Speaking
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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