Quotes for January 18

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— Rabita Sarkar, of Harrison, N.J., who got the morning commute of her life when she gave birth to her first child on a PATH commuter train to New York.

“It’s Christmas in January. It’s nice to have Mars sending samples to Earth, particularly when our pockets are too empty to go get them ourselves.”

— Alan Stern, director of the Florida Space Institute at the University of Central Florida, as scientists confirm that 15 pounds of rock collected recently in Morocco fell to Earth from Mars during a meteorite shower last July.


“It’s just that this guy had other plans, and he came out earlier.”

— Rabita Sarkar, of Harrison, N.J., who got the morning commute of her life when she gave birth to her first child on a PATH commuter train to New York.