“It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.”

“Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.”

“Light travels faster than sound. Isn't that why people appear bright before you hear them speak?”

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

“I have not been able to relate the idea to the 'faster than light' neutrinos since there are no causality checks to decide if they are travelling in the past.”

“The trivial travels faster than the profound.”

“We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.”

“Descartes maintained his confidence in the instantaneity of light. … Yet in his derivation of the law of refraction, Descartes reasoned that light travelled faster in a dense medium than in one less dense. He seems to have had no qualms about comparing infinite magnitudes!”

“It is hard to understand how this infinitely dense singularity can evaporate into nothing. For matter inside the black hole leak out into the universe requires that it travel faster than the speed of light.”

“Newton's proof of the law of refraction is based on an erroneous notion that light travels faster in glass than in air, the same error that Descartes had made. This error stems from the fact that both of them thought that light was corpuscular in nature.”