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Science is what happens when preconception meets verification.

Science may someday discover what faith has always known.

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise?
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
                -- Edgar Allen Poe, "Science, a Sonnet"

Scientists still know less about what attracts men
than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.
                -- Dr. Joyce Brothers,
                "What Every Woman Should Know About Men"

Scientists were preparing an experiment to ask the ultimate question.
They had worked for months gathering one each of every computer that
was built. Finally the big day was at hand.  All the computers were
linked together.  They asked the question, "Is there a God?".  Lights
started blinking, flashing and blinking some more.  Suddenly, there
was a loud crash, and a bolt of lightning came down from the sky,
struck the computers, and welded all the connections permanently
together.  "There is now", came the reply.

Scintilate, scintilate, globule vivific,
Fain how I pause at your nature specific,
Loftily poised in the ether capacious,
Highly resembling a gem carbonaceous.
Scintilate, scintilate, globule vivific,
Fain how I pause at your nature specific.

Scintillation is not always identification for an auric substance.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 - Nov 21)
        You are shrewd in business and cannot be trusted.  You will achieve
        the pinnacle of success because of your total lack of ethics.  Most
        Scorpio people are murdered.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)
        Friends abound today, seeking repayment of past loans.  Smile.  Check
        for concealed weapons.  Your natural cheerfulness makes others want
        to throw up.  Knock it off.

SCORPIO (Oct.24 - Nov.21)
        You will receive word today that you are eligible to win a million
        dollars in prizes.  It will be from a magazine trying to get you to
        subscribe, and you're just dumb enough to think you've got a chance
        to win.  You never learn.