Jason Edwards -- winner of the Australian Museum's New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography for his first-ever photo of two Megaptera novaeangliae clapsed in a "brief but tender" mating embrace -- recalls the event in an interview earlier this year with The Daily Telegraph:"It was amazing. There were four or five males vying for her ( Read more... )

"I am -- and ever will be -- a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow."

-- Neil Armstrong, in a 2000 speech quoted today in the New Scientist tribute Neil Armstrong: First moon ( Read more... )

"Pay your f***ing taxes. Revel in living in a rich, modern, 21st century civilisation and stop wishing your life back to the 19th century."

-- From job-creator and high-earner
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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

-- François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (21 Nov. 1694 - 30 May 1778) , philosopher and writer

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"Internet puppy no can haz noms"

-- Charles Stross and spouse, turning a potential flame war over this year's Clarke Awards shortlist into a sad-eyed marketing opportunity: a little puppy with big eyes, and the above caption, available on a range of T-shirts or a mug.

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"Provide ship or sails adapted to the heavenly breezes, and there will be some who will not fear even that void."
-- celestial physicist Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

From the space-related quotations collection hosted by colonization advocate Al Globus on his link-filled site (scroll waaaay down the page).

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