"NASA's training philosophy is "no surprises." So what they did is put a simulator on Earth where it looks exactly the same as a shuttle toilet and they put a camera down in the bottom of the opening for solid-waste collection, with a light that basically illuminates your asshole."

“Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms.”

“It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.”

“Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.”

Source : Tobias Dantzig (2005). “Number: The Language of Science”, Dutton Juvenile

“as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.”

“Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.”

“You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.”

“To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.”

Source : Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.167, Oxford University Press

“If our company is to survive and prosper, over the long term we must get our share of the youth market.”