Quotes from Douglas E. Richards

Through space-time, yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. When you're not moving at all in space, you're moving at the speed of light, so to speak, through time—the fastest the universe allows you to do so. When you're moving at the speed of light through space, you stop moving through time.

Well, you know what they say: everything seems to take longer when you're crammed inside a footlocker.

Mom and Dad could be spies and they could be criminals. Worse, they could be here against their will, being threatened in some way if they don't cooperate.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That's why they call it the present. —Unknown "The

Trying to get Congress to pull in one direction is worse than herding cats. It's herding self-interested, narcissistic, opportunistic cats. Who only care about getting reelected, no matter how much they pretend to care about their constituencies.

An impressive group," said the admiral, "with an even more impressive team dynamic. On paper, there is no way a collection of hardened military men, inexperienced civilians, and quirky genius scientists should get along so well." "I think the secret is that they're all decent, caring people," said Cochran. "And they've been through hell and back together." "They're

Sort of like Alexander Graham Bell putting the finishing touches on the world's first and only phone . . . and then getting an incoming call.

Could he trust this man? He had thought he could trust Rourk, after all. And while Edgar Knight had always been a strange duck, he had trusted him as well. Until he learned otherwise—the hard way. Men were snakes. If God himself could be betrayed by an angel in Heaven—an angel named Satan, whom he was forced to cast out—certainly any man could be betrayed by any other man at any time.

There are no major cities or resorts

Jews make up 0.2 percent of the world population, they make up 27 percent of Nobel physics laureates.

Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles in the 2004 Nimitz Encounter.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says. He is always convinced that it says what he means." —George Bernard Shaw

even the most compassionate of the species could be corrupted by absolute power. Even angels in heaven could be corrupted, as Satan himself proved only too well.

you take two radioactive atoms, absolutely identical in every conceivable way, they will decay randomly. The first might decay immediately, while the second doesn't do the same for an hour or more. Why the difference? After all, they're identical. Scientists have never found any way to explain it, or predict when this decay will occur.

My father let me think about this and then asked me what I'd do the next time a test came around. How would I prepare for it? It occurred to me that if I knew I really couldn't earn an A, what was the point of killing myself? I told my father, and he agreed. In fact, he told me that soon the entire class would be getting Cs, and then Ds. And eventually Fs. Socialism at work.

would be to set up an artificial matrix into which she can transfer

Precise knowledge of how all things are entangled with all others at the quantum level.

The human body harbored ten times more bacteria than it had cells of its own. In fact, more than thirty times as many bacteria could be found in an ounce of fecal matter than there were humans in the world.

Trying to get Congress to pull in one direction is worse than herding cats. It's herding self-interested, narcissistic, opportunistic cats.

And when all was said and done, they were nothing more than civilians who managed to get donors excited enough to give them money, and then win a popularity contest. They weren't the smartest or best trained that humanity had to offer, and they didn't have the best judgment. The truly brilliant, truly gifted, wanted little to do with politics.

As if the idea of not having a phone on and by one's side every waking instant was inconceivable.

It terrified me to realize just how easy it was for mass delusion to overtake large swaths of humanity. That just below the surface of human kindness was a seething pool of unfathomable ruthlessness and cruelty, unequaled in the animal kingdom.

Human beings behaved the way they behaved, decided the way they decided, driven by an amalgam of genes and impulses and evolution and instincts and drives and mysterious unconscious controllers that fooled the conscience into believing it was in charge.

Delaware Aqueduct, had been completed in 1945, and ran