The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which man shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be. Simon Newcomb (declared in 1901) 1. At the rise of the hand of the policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass him or otherwise disrespect him.<br> 2. If pedestrian obstacle your path, tootle horn melodiously. If he continue to obstacle, tootle horn vigorously and utter vocal warning such as "Hi, Hi."<br> [...]<br> 5. Beware of greasy corner where lurk skid demon. Cease step on, approach slowly, round cautiously, resume step on gradually. from an official Japanese guide for English-speaking drivers, 1936 I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue. Richard Nixon, discussing Watergate Equal Rights were created for everyone. contesant in 1990 Mr. New Jersey Male pageant How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak? Jay Leno
US comedian & television host (1950 - ) Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being. Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II,72)
French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662) Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. Blaise Pascal, quoted by Rebecca West in BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1940
French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662) The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. Steven Weinberg
US physicist (1933 - ) Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. Stephen Jay Gould
US author, naturalist, paleontologist, & popularizer of science (1941 - 2002) Be humble for you are made of dung. Be noble for you are made of stars. Serbian proverb | 
