I do not believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect intended us to forgo their use. -Galileo Galilei-

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. -C. S. Lewis-

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. -Albert Einstein-

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the remainder of the day.

Don’t marry the one you can live with. Marry the one you can’t live without.

The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. -Mark Twain-

If you keep your expectations low you are never disappointed.

Clarke’s First Law of Prediction: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong.

The Statue of Liberty test: One of the best indicators of what makes a country great is the number of people who want to get out compared to the number who want to get in. On that scale, America is on the top of the list. -Timothy Garton Ash, alt.-

So I was in the lab and I mixed some oxygen and some magnesium and it was, like, OMg.