Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is “mere”. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern — of which I am a part…. What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. -Richard Feynman-

May there be such a oneness between you that when one weeps, the other tastes salt. -M. Buxbaum-

I have never understood the female capacity to avoid the answer to a direct question. -Spock, “Star Trek”-

I have not yet begun to fight! -Captain John Paul Jones, USN-

I wish to have no Connection with any Ship that does not Sail fast for I intend to go in harm’s way. -Captain John Paul Jones, USN-

On the other hand, we have different fingers. -Jack Handey-

And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham?

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. -Dan Quayle-

Backups? We don’ *NEED* no steenking backups.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.