"What you see now are the various Democratic candidates kind of groping for a religious strategy.

"What you see now are the various Democratic candidates kind of groping for a religious strategy. For some of them, it doesn't come naturally."
Political scientist James Guth
Of Furman University, on the presidential hopefuls trying to make the point with voters that they -- like President Bush -- believe in God.
"I am flabbergasted. I am astonished. I am blown away. Opportunity has touched down in an alien and bizarre landscape. I still don't know what we're looking at."
Scientist Steven Squyres
Describing his reaction to the first pictures of Mars transmitted from NASA's rover Opportunity, which landed over the weekend.