I think
blockquotes
are generally preferred on Rationality Quotes threads. You can make blockquotes by typing a greater-than symbol (>) followed by a space before each paragraph in your quote (no need for quotation marks).
Also, that specific quote doesn't make much sense to me without context.
After a joint American-Soviet mission to Mars, the astronauts return home and refuse to tell who was the first to put their feet on the planet. Everybody pesters them, but they say they did it together (though they really couldn't.) The Soviet one is drinking with a new friend, whom he knows for a few hours, and the friend says it is impossible that Harrison will claim the honour - and so gets dubbed 'a Martian' himself. Martianss here is really a name for humans for whom petty things don't matter, who work for mankind.
Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are: