Why is it we drive on a parkway but park in a driveway?

It must have been the coffee. -Jack Soo (last words to Hal Linden)-

Most jobs are mind numbing, except for teachers whose job it is to numb minds.

Boy, am I glad that the hole is in your end of the boat.

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science. -Carl Friedrich Gauss-

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-

Some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. What I mean is this: One of you says, “I follow Wesley”; another, “I follow Luther”; another, “I follow the Pope”; still another, “I follow Christ.” Is Christ divided?

If it’s tourist season does that mean we can shoot them?

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp. -Henri Poincaré-

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.