[W]here the case is of importance—or, what amounts to the same thing in the policial eyes, when the reward is of magnitude, the qualities in question have never been known to fail.

Al Neuharth, the founder of USA Today, who has crisscrossed the world as a special correspondent on his BusCapade and JetCapade

Much big science is concentrated in a single huge machine. But distributed big science in this case consists of missions (also called projects) that make up an extended, multidecadal program of exploration

The snarling dog scared me away without ever opening its mouth.