A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.

Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.

In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.