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• Volcanoes have a grandeur that is grim And earthquakes only terrify the dolts, And to him who's scientific There is nothing that's terrific In the pattern of a flight of thunderbolts!
  -- W.S. Gilbert, "The Mikado...
• Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so? When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friends, Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbol
  Dash him to pieces! -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Julius Caesar -- Act iv, Sc. 3...
• You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
  -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) " The Man who was Orthodox", via Paul Black...
• The challenge of space exploration and particularly of landing men on the moon represents the greatest challenge which has ever faced the human race.
  Even if there were no clear scientific or other arguments for proceeding with this task, the whole history of our civilization would still impel men toward the goal....
• The seismograph is a scientific device that enables scientists to distinguish between actual earthquakes and ordinary cocktail parties.
• Humour is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse. -- William Gilbe
• Man is nature's sole mistake. -- William S. Gilbert (1836-1911)
• Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse." -- William Gilbe