Wry observation from the editors of Big Think about the recent spectacular experiments at the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva: “We are grateful that, improbable as it seemed, the collider did not create a fatal black hole.”

Other quotable quotes from this article in The Atlantic Monthly (where there are links to videos):

“I value the spirit of curiosity and discovery that leads scientists to spend $16 billion to build something that may (not will, but may) give us an inkling about how the universe works.”