To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers . . . and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced 'uh-LOO-mih-num', right? Anybody knows that! But do you know how the British spell it? 'Aluminium', pronounced 'Al-yoo-MIH-nee-um'. Ever hear anything so ridiculous? The French and Germans spell it 'aluminium', too, but they're foreigners who don't speak Earth-standard. You'd think the British, however, using our language, would be more careful