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• Volcanos 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!
  -- William S. Gilbert (1836-1911), "The Mikado...
• 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...
• W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic.
  This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the Grecian is the more valued after audibly spelling out some simple Greek word, like _epixoriambikos_....
• 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....
• 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...
• The seismograph is a scientific device that enables scientists to distinguish between actual earthquakes and ordinary cocktail parties.
• Nothing is inevitable -- not even revolution. -- Gilbert Seldes (1893-?)
• There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals.
  The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong....
• Things are seldom what they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream. -- W. S. Gilbe