Never forget: We are alive within mysteries. - Wendell Berry

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. - Bob Dylan

Nothing shocks me, I'm a scientist. - Indiana Jones

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan

I have never seen a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. - D.H. Lawrence

It's all about striving to live a rich life with deep meaning, and realizing one's potential to become a moral being. - Paul Pinet

I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end. My field is the history of thought. Man is a thinking being. - Michel Foucault

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. Or, simply translated, "All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one." - Occam's Razor

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey

According to the map we've only gone 4 inches. - Harry Dunne

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein

In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics! - Homer Simpson

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. - Aldo Leopold

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. - T.S. Eliot

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. - Chuang Tzu

Things do not change; we change. - Henry David Thoreau

Ignorance never settles a question. - Fortune Cookie

All generalities are false, in general. - Another Fortune Cookie

When I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars. - Walt Whitman

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. - FDR

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. - Rachel Carson

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, forget em', cause, man, they're gone. - Jack Handey

If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to a single sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone. - John McPhee

No amount of experiments can ever prove me right; a single experiment may at anytime prove me wrong. - Albert Einstein

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. - Edward Abbey

In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan

Oh, Andy loved Geology. I guess it appealed to his meticulous nature. An ice age here, million years of mountain building there. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes really, pressure, and time. - Red

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw

Go big or go home. - Colin Borst

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and
that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost

A few hours mountain climbing turns a rogue and a saint into two roughly equal creatures. Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and liberty is finally added by sleep. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. - Ken Kesey

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck in the middle of nowhere. - Bill Nye

I've got an idea -- an idea so smart that my head would explode if I even began to know what I was talking about. - Peter Griffin

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter. - Dr. Seuss

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, "with both eyes open." - Nicolaus Copernicus

This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains. - Nuke LaLoosh

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the
edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. - Kurt
Vonnegut, Jr.

Give me a lever long enough, and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. - Archimedes

May you build a ladder to the stars, and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young. - Bob Dylan

You can't fix by analysis what you bungled by design. - Light, Singer, and Willett

In the confrontation between the river and the rock, the river always wins...not by strength, but by perseverence. - Louis Agassiz

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. - Chris Visco

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. - Dr. Seuss, "The Lorax"

Don't take life seriously, because you can't come out of it alive. - Warren Miller