Dr. Wolfgang Pauli was a physicist during the late 20th century. Whenever he stepped inside the physics lab, something would go wrong or break down, usually a very expensive piece of equipment. Became kind of a joke with the other doctors, who called it the Pauli effect. According to the story, one day an extremely sensitive and expensive piece of equipment exploded, but he wasn't in the room. So for the first time, they had some proof that the Pauli effect wasn't real. Until they found out that at the exact moment the equipment exploded, he was on a train passing by right in front of the place.
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
[Garibaldi can't take his eyes off Captain Lochley's hologram]
ZAZack Allen
Hey!
What? What am I supposed to do, blind myself here? All right, fine, I'm as offended as you are. But I can see why a lot of guys would rent this particular image.
JMJacob Mayhew
Actually, it was mainly women.
Faith is good. But sometimes faith is blind.
Babylon 5: A Call to Arms
GGalen
If sometimes dreams come true, then what of our nightmares?
[Dureena extracts a data crystal from a Drazi skin pouch.]
LALeonard Anderson
How do you know they have a pouch?
Well. It's not a pouch... exactly... It's their reproductive area.
LALeonard Anderson
Ugh, why did you have to tell me that? Hey, lady! Dureena! Listen! The only thing valuable I carry on me is my watch! I want you to know that in case that ever comes up in the future. Okay?
You're asking the impossible.
Then I am asking the right person.
[last lines of the episode]
Those who command the Excalibur will never stop, never give up, and never slow down until a cure is found. And we'll take any help we can get. Wherever and whoever it comes from. Because this is a cause that surpasses borders and difference and distrust. This is a mission of about the survival of Earth itself. What we do over the next five years, here, at home, and across the darkness between the stars, will determine whether an entire world will live ... or die. It's a fight we can't afford to lose. And we won't ... We won't.
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers
DDulann
His concern was for us, not for himself. I know. I saw it in his soul.
[The Liandra, 20 years old and somewhat in need of maintenance, is about to try to launch.]
SCSarah Cantrell
Today's a good day to die.
DMDavid Martel
Oh, with you every day is a good day to die.
[after the Liandra rescues a group of very annoyed diplomats from an alien raid, G'Kar attempts to calm them down]
Minister Kafta, this ship is being held together by little pieces of wire and good intentions. If we land in this condition, assuming we do not have an unpleasant encounter with the ground on the way down, I doubt very much they could take off again. They would be trapped with us, and the ship looking for them would find it, find them, find us, find you, a brilliant cascade of cause and effect. Isn't the universe a wonderful place? I wouldn't live anywhere else.
[last lines]
[about to leave the Liandra for Babylon 5] It's quite a place. A place of good times and bad, of pain and growth, but in the end a place of great hope. But if you ever do come aboard, remember one thing: No one there is exactly what he seems. But then, who is?
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