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."

Carrie Prejean:  "It's so embarrassing."

Alfred Hitchcock:  "Good Evening."

Maria:  "Fly me to The Moon."

Marilyn Monroe:  "Happy Birthday Mr. President."

Mick Jagger:  "I can't get no satisfaction."

Phil:  "I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of The Free Wankers Society.  The Free Wankers Society, bah!   What Free Wankers Society?  There is no Free Wankers Society."

Woody Allen:  "Don't knock it.  Its making love to somebody you really care about."

Dr Ruth:  "Remember to wear a condom."

Popeye:  "Shiver me timbers, Olive."

Phil:  "Maria?  Well....she's good, but she's no Maria. U? :)"

NASA's mission statement:  "Panspermia." 

Mick Jagger:  "You're So Vain."

Phil:  "Is that a Freudian slip or Victoria's Secret?"

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!"

Jaques:  “All the world's a stage” 

Hamlet:  "wherein we'll catch the conscience of the King."

Anne Hathaway:  "You remind me of the man."

William Shakespeare: "What man?"

Anne Hathaway:  "The man with the power."

William Shakespeare:  "What power?"

Anne Hathaway:  "The power of woohoo." 

William Shakespeare:  "Woohoo?" 

Anne Hathaway:  "Yoohoo."

William Shakespeare:  "Oh Hello bb, brb."

Nick Bottom:  "Methinks I was enamored of an ass."

Hannity:  "You have a way with words."

Jerry Falwell:  “The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability."

Phil:  "The planet Venus, named after the Goddess of Love, turns out to be a very hot, mean place for life as we know it."

Bill Nye, the Science Guy:  "If you want to get serious about it, these guys claiming that the snow in Washington disproves climate change are almost unpatriotic.  It‘s really they‘re denying science."

Phil:  "The sun is even hotter."

Dick Van Dyke: "Gray skies are gonna clear up, Put on a happy face."

The Walrus:  "goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob."

Bob Anderson:  "Good job!"

John:  "And of course Henry the Horse dances the waltz."

Phil:  "A dictionary is actually a thesaurus."

Paul:  "Will you still feed me, will you still need me, when I'm sixty four."

William Shakespeare:  "That to be heaven Anne hath a way; She hath a way."

Robert Graves:  "A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good."

Phil:  "I'm not a big fan of profanity. There are just too many commonly unused words in the dictionary.  To wit, psychobabble's co-dependency in denial augurs an extrasomatic mephitic paranoiac phenomenon in abeyance to eventuation or other superfluous loathsome malapropos denouements."

Arthur C. Clarke:  "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Robert H Goddard:  It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Howard Hughes:  “I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I'm a billionaire.”

Richard Nixon: "Why would I want to talk to David Frost?"

Swifty Lazar: "I've got half a million dollars."

Richard Nixon: "Really? (Expletive deleted)."

Phil:  "Knowledge is power.*

*subject to updates without notice"

Topic: A Self Evident Truth. Our discussion continues.

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."

Carrie Prejean:  "It's so embarrassing."

Alfred Hitchcock:  "Good Evening."

Maria:  "Fly me to The Moon."

Marilyn Monroe:  "Happy Birthday Mr. President."

Mick Jagger:  "I can't get no satisfaction."

Phil:  "I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of The Free Wankers Society.  The Free Wankers Society, bah!   What Free Wankers Society?  There is no Free Wankers Society."

Woody Allen:  "Don't knock it.  Its making love to somebody you really care about."

Dr Ruth:  "Remember to wear a condom."

Popeye:  "Shiver me timbers, Olive."

Phil:  "Maria?  Well....she's good, but she's no Maria. U? :)"

NASA's mission statement:  "Panspermia." 

Mick Jagger:  "You're So Vain."

Phil:  "Is that a Freudian slip or Victoria's Secret?"

Topic: A Self Evident Truth. Our discussion continues.

Carrie Prejean:  "It's so embarrassing."

Alfred Hitchcock:  "Good Evening."

Maria:  "Fly me to The Moon."

Marilyn Monroe:  "Happy Birthday Mr. President."

Mick Jagger:  "I can't get no satisfaction."

Phil:  "I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of The Free Wankers Society.  The Free Wankers Society, bah!   What Free Wankers Society?  There is no Free Wankers Society."

Woody Allen:  "Don't knock it.  Its making love to somebody you really care about."

Dr Ruth:  "Remember to wear a condom."

Popeye:  "Shiver me timbers, Olive."

Phil:  "Maria?  Well....she's good, but she's no Maria. U? :)"

NASA's mission statement:  "Panspermia." 

Mick Jagger:  "You're So Vain."

Phil:  "Is that a Freudian slip or Victoria's Secret?"

Sigmund Freud:  "Man, ist wenn verliebt, sehr verrückt."

Leonard Bernstein:  "I feel pretty....."

Professor Henry Higgins:  "By George, I think she's got it!"

Clarke Gable:  "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn."

Bud Abbott:  "Oh, that's our short stop."

Phil:  "But love is real, symbolically speaking, Ann."

Rumi:  "There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth."

Brooke Medicine Eagle:  "Spirit of the Wind carry me.  Spirit of the Sky spread my wings and fly."

Emilia: "'Tis neither here nor there."

Marcellus:  "'Tis gone!"

Joe Namath:  "Hut one. Hut two. I want to kiss you."

Jim Morrison:  "Come on Baby light my fire!"

Pepe LePew:  "Je t'adore, mon cheri."

Jose Feliciano:  "Girl we couldn't get much higher."

Elton John:  "Like a Candle in the Wind"

Peter:  "Puff the magic dragon..."

Rif:  "When you're a jet..."

Friedrich Nietzsche:  "Also sprach Zarathustra"

"Erin Pavlina:  "In summary, if you want to learn to astral project there’s no reason why you can’t.  But it will take a commitment and some high awareness."

Mitch Miller and the Gang:  "By the light of the Silvery Moon"

Dennis Connors:  “Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.”

Phil:  "Ready about!  Hard alee!  Nice smile!"

Adam:  "Do you know the difference between a jib and a gybe?"

John Cameron Swayze:  "It takes a licking, and keeps on ticking!"

Bob Dylan:  "The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind."

Bob Denver: "Far out"

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: "Yogic Flying"

Clarence Darrow: "Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas."

Robin:  "Holy Smokes, Batman!"

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."

Genesis:  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.  And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."  

Phil:  "8000 BC Human population about 5.3 million. The date of creation set at 5508 BC or 5409 BC or 4004 BC or 3760 BC.

Cris Wallace:  It's a date.

Clarke Gable:   "Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing."

Phil:  "4000 BC:  World population is about 85 million.

Cris:  "People who live in grass huts shouldn't stow thrones.  

Phil:  "The abacus developed in and around the Middle East and Mediterranean about 3000 BC."

Pythagoras:  "Μια ορθογωνισμένη συν Β ορθογωνισμένη ίσον C ορθογωνισμένη."

Hammurabi the Great:  "We knew that!"

Pythagoras:  "Ι αποδείχθηκε."

Church Lady:  "Well I don't know.  Who could it be?"

Howard Baker:  "What did the president know and when did he know it?"

Phil:  "2010 AD Earth's population 6.08 billion."

Ernest Hemingway:  "But did thee feel the earth move?"

Phil:  "Whoa!  I believe that's called human nature, anthropomorphically speaking."

Martin (The Geico Gecko):  "Human Nature.  Right."