Topic: A Self Evident Truth. Our discussion continues.

Nicolas Copernicus:  "At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun."

Arthur C. Clarke:  "Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along."

Nicolas Copernicus:  "Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe."

Phil:  "I'm not a gynecologist, but I would look into that."

Will Rogers:  "It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."

Phil:  "Intelligent life on Earth?  I don't know!"

Albert Einstein:  "If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be called research, would it?"

Yogi Berra:  "You can observe a lot just by watching."

Dr. Carl Sagan: “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

Mark Twain: “It is wiser to find out than to suppose”

Arthur C Clarke:  "Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it."

Phil:  "Honesty?  Tell me a secret you don't want me to know.  That's honesty!"

George Bernard Shaw:  "Ptolemy created a universe that lasted a thousand years. Copernicus created a universe that lasted four hundred years. Einstein has created a universe and I can't tell you how long it will last."

Phil:  "Free enterprise is genetically the closest to our hunter-gatherer roots than any other social experiment in cooperative human living. Build a better arrowhead, the world will beat a path to your cave.  It will get a little more complicated once civilization of our species begins.

Sigmund Freud:  "Zivilisation ist Verdrängung.  Gott verdammt es!"

Phil:  "Alright, alright!  Calm down!  Sex is important, Einstein, but you should have gone camping....alone....for several months.... without any groceries.... and cigars....to give it some perspective."

Ben Franklin:  "Hunger is the best pickle."

Charles Darwin:  At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

Phil:  Is the Cradle of Civilization civilized yet?

Phil:  "Double speak is to 1984 as polyverse is to______________?"

A.  The Voyage of the Beagle

B.  Mein Kampf

C.  The Trail of Tears

D.  Close Encounters of the Third Kind

E.  The Koran

Sgt. Pepper:  "Lucy in the skies with diamonds"

Jerry Falwell:  “Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America.”

Sammy Sosa:  "Baseball has been good to me."

Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776:  "When in the course of human events....."

Sigmund Freud: The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"

Phil:  "A great orgasm, Einstein.  The purpose of the libido is the propagation of the species.  And by the current numbers on world population, that repression thing of yours has yet to commence."

Joe Montana:  "There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass."

The Idaho Couch Potato:  "This Spud's for you."

Bud Abbott:  "I don't know."

Phil:  "I've been to Helena and back!  You should see my car!"

Charles Foster Kane: "Yes. Dear Wheeler: you provide the prose poems. I'll provide the war."