"Welcome to science. Youâ€™re gonna like it here."

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Phil Plait

#Welcome Quotes

“I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play -- she had a seven or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.”
“An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.”
“Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.”
“You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning.”
“Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.”
“My parents have always been very open.”
“Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings have called it over the centuries, we often find ourselves surrounded by bossy, hectoring voices trying to short-circuit our personal experience by super-imposing their own disappointments. Much of this bossiness masquerades as an education.”
“What happened happened. What's gonna happen, is gonna happen.”

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