Topic: A Self Evident Truth. Our discussion continues.

Phil:  "I refuse to be labeled an atheist, agnostic or true believer, for these appellatives offend my intelligence and deep appreciation of the logic of mathematics, the accumulated body of knowledge derived by scientific exploration, and the universe as we know it today.  For lack of a better word, I am an existentialist, epistemologically speaking. All things considered, what's the alternative? Oxymorons?  What part of know don't you get?"

Arthur C.  Clarke:  "I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."

Phil:  "I know all things exist and that is always true. Beyond that I can only believe."

Groucho:  "Hello I must be going."

Phil:  "I know I am!  What do you think?"

Rene Descartes:  "I think therefore I am."

B. Leach: "What are you thinking?  Don't even think it!"

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Irving Berlin:  "Now, if you're blue, And you don't know where to go to. Why don't you go where fashion sits?"

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Phil:  "Legend has it Santa Claus is real. And apparently faster than the speed of light."

Gerald Ford:  "Whip inflation now."

Santa Claus:  "Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on Cupid! on Donner and Blitzen!"

Freud:  "Ja, Herrin."

Carl Jung:  "The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."

Stephen Wright: "When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.”

Bertrand Russell:  "Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."

Phil:  "Every habit is a bad habit."

Bertram Russell:  "So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."

Lou Costello:  "Who's on first?"

Phil:  "An apple a day keeps the Doctor away."

Hamlet:  "Get thee to a nunnery."

Hippocrates:  “A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician."

Isaac Newton:  Force equals mass times accelleration.

Stephen Hawking: "I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason."

Blaise Pascal:  "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways."

Phil:  "One must be careful not to trivialize the obvious when attempting profundity for posterity."

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Albert Einstein:  Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.

Phil:  Where did all that energy go?  Oh dear, what's the matter now?  Dimensional phase change?"

Stephen Hawking:  "However, one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem."  "My goal is simple.  It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."

Phil:  "There are limits of course.  Abstraction is always incomplete. There is only one complete model of Reality.  Full scale."

Stephen Wright: "You can't have everything, where would you put it?"

Isaac Newton:   “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

Phil:  "Did you see the Darryl Hannah version of 'Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman?'"

Barbara Seaman:  Condoms should be marketed in 3 sizes, jumbo, colossal, and super colossal, so that men do not have to go in and ask for the small.

Werner Heisenberg:  "It is not surprising that our language should be incapable of describing the processes occurring within the atoms, for, as has been remarked, it was invented to describe the experiences of daily life, and these consist only of processes involving exceedingly large numbers of atoms. Furthermore, it is very difficult to modify our language so that it will be able to describe these atomic processes, for words can only describe things of which we can form mental pictures, and this ability, too, is a result of daily experience. Fortunately, mathematics is not subject to this limitation, and it has been possible to invent a mathematical scheme - the quantum theory - which seems entirely adequate for the treatment of atomic processes; for visualization, however, we must content ourselves with two incomplete analogies - the wave picture and the corpuscular picture."

Phil:  "What's the matter?  Dimensional differential juxtaposition? Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?"

Ben Franklin:  "Time is money."

Phil:  "Can the human mind grasp a what's-sa-ma-giggy-do-hickie?"

Thomas Carlyle:  "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden."

Phil:  "Did you take two aspirins?"

Anonymous:  "Love makes the world go 'round."

Phil:  "If it's real, it has an electron volt equivalent."

Donald Trump:  “It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.”

Rosalind:  "Thou speak wiser than thou art ware of."

Phil:  "For a discerning standard model, that's a massive proposition."

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Professor Donald Johansson:  "Australopithecus afarensis"

Richard Leakey:  "I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa."

Eldridge Cleaver:  "Black is Beautiful"

Professor Harold Hill:  "Ya got trouble, Right here in River city! With a capital "T" And that rhymes with "P" And that stands for Pool."

L. Hubbard:  "Criminally insane paranoid?  Would you like to see my etchings?"

Church Lady:  "Could it be.....Satan!"

Ron Howard:  "Gary, Indiana!"

Khrushchev:  "We will bury you."

Anonymous FBI agent:  "Yeah, I can understand your feeling the need to kidnap your own daughter.  It was a nasty set of divorces!  Polygamy.   Losing custody and all.  Hard to erase those memories?"

Lt Colombo:  "Oh, Just one more thing.   Why did you take her to Cuba?  KGB?  Fidel?  Casinos?  DesiLu?  George Raft?  Monroe Doctrine?  Friends of yours?"

Anonymous FBI agent:  "The locked cage in the jungle, that's not as easy to understand.  Not exactly a place to keep you daughter if you had gotten custody."

Nicholas Cage:  "Did you see 'National Treasure?'"

George Clooney:  "Gary Coleman."

Lt Colombo:  "Were you paranoid that somebody might kidnap her?"

Beach Boys:  "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo."

Ed Koch:  "He is a crook, but I like him.... Most politicians still like De Sapio. He always gets the most applause when he is introduced at Democratic dinners."

Richard Nixon:  "Well, I'm not a crook!"

Thomas Jefferson: "The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river; & such principal stream of it, as by its course & communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, may offer the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purpose of commerce."

Dr Carl Sagan:  “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

Phil:  "My thoughts exactly.  We are The Physics of Music, The Universal Laws of Nature, The Cosmic Consciousness of the Multiverse waking up to give itself a breast exam, galactically speaking, of course."

Neil deGrasse Tyson:  "After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"

Galileo:  “The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.”    

Edwin Hubble:  "I can see clearly now!"

Ben Franklin:  "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

Phil:  "One may wish to ascribe a greater purpose to Life." 

Sam:  "Protons must have their quarks. That no one can deny."

Charles Darwin:  "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection."

Walter Kornbluth:   "She's a fish!"

Beach Boys:  "Help me Rhonda, get her out of my heart."

Phil:  "Happiness starts with a smile."

Dalai Lama:  "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

Thomas Jefferson (with Ben Franklin editing):  “We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”

Gloria Steinem:  "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

Carrie Nation:  "Men are nicotine-soaked, beer-besmirched, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devils."

Teddy Roosevelt:  "Speak softly, but carry a big stick."

Al Capone:  "Speak easy, but carry a baseball bat."

Helen Reddy:  "I am woman, hear me roar."

Tony the tiger: "They're grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!"

Tiger Woods:  "Could you just maybe delete my name from your cell phone.  That would be huge."

Phil:  "...and ends without one."

Dr Carl Sagan: “Who are we?"

All:  "We are the world."

Michael Jackson:  "We are the children."

Dr Carl Sagan:  "We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.”

Carl Jung: "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

Arthur C. Clarke:  "It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him."

Frank Morgan:  "I am the great and powerful....Wizard of Oz."

Dr Henry Frankenstein:  “It's alive!  It's alive!  It's alive!  It's alive!  IT'S ALIVE!"

Lois Lane:  "It's Superman!"

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Leif Ericson:  "Der hvor er vi? Ny grunnlegge land? Hva slags navnet er det alt? Det er så original!"

George Washington:  "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

Oprah Winfrey:  "He's the one."

Psalm 23:  "The Lord is my shepherd..."

Phil:  "Alchemy?  So far it still takes about 13 billion years to find gold naturally.   A second generation star must go supernova.  Then a third generation star with a solar system and life must form and light up in order to find it."

Genesis:  And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

Al Sleet, the Hippy Dippy Weatherman:  "Weather tonight: dark. Turning partly light by morning."

Ptolemy:  I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods.

Phil:  "7500 years of Humanity celebrating in one form or another, the return of the Sun to the Northern Hemisphere.  Let's Partae!    Merry Winter Solstice!  In fact, let's call it a Happy New Year!  WooHoo!  It seems like the whole Northern Hemisphere is turning green."

Madison:  "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!"

Jerry Falwell:  "There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.”

Charlemagne:  "Permissum nos lacto paganus converto."

Noah(Bill Cosby):  "Right.................What's an Ark?"

William F. Buckley:  Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.

Martin (The Geico Gecko): "And you're going to live forever.......when you die!   But you'll love it?  Oh dear."

Phil:  "I suspect most people would like to live forever..............while they're alive!"

Freud:   "Das ist nicht richtig, Scheissekopf!"

John McEnroe:  "You've got to be kidding me!   That was on the line."

Jack Paar:  "I kid you not."

Phil:  "Maybe you'd be interested in some real estate in Florida?  In another universe?"  

Martin (The Geico Gecko):  "Promise her anything, but give her Arpel.  Right."

Sir Walter Scott:  "Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice robbery...er socialism...er to deceive."

Phil:  "Speaking of polyverse, that's multidimensionally plausible."

Puck:  "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

Patrick:  "Gullibility is not in the dictionary."