"My doctor’s a very strange man. I said to him, “Doc, what’s the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer?” He told me, “The taste.”"
- Rodney Dangerfield
"I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it."
- Rodney Dangerfield
"A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over. There's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home."
- Rodney Dangerfield
"If the odds are 50/50, I don't stand a chance!"
- Rodney Dangerfield
"Birds know, better than humans, not to spoil the nest."
- Carl Sagan
"The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer."
- Carl Sagan
"The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee."
- Carl Sagan
"There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy."
- Carl Sagan
"For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness."
- Carl Sagan
"The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries."