That much good ensues, and that the science is greatly advanced, by the collision of various theories, cannot be doubted. Each party is anxious to support opinions by facts. Thus, new countries are explored, and old districts re-examined; facts come to light that do not suit either party; new theories spring up; and in the end, a greater insight into the real structure of the earth's surface is obtained. Henry Thomas De La Beche (Sections and views illustrative of geological phenomena, 1830)
Will it give place to flexure and low bending? Henry Plantagenet (Henry V, Act III)
Theory like mist on glasses. Obscure facts. Charlie Chan (Charlie Chan in Egypt, 1935).
La Republique n'a pas besoin de savants. Coffinhal (trial of Lavoisier, 1794).
I have no need of that hypothesis. Laplace (on God).
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. Niels Bohr.
In this house, young lady, we obey the rules of thermodynamics! Homer Simpson.
Let no-one without geometry enter here Inscription over the entrance to Plato's Academy
Abandon hope all you who enter here Inscription over the entrance to Dante's Inferno
The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning - no prospect of an end. James Hutton (Theory of the Earth, 1788).
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. Johann von Neumann.
Nature, and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said: 'Let Newton be !' and all was light." Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet. "It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho ! Let Einstein be !' restored the status quo." John Collings Squire (1884-1958), British journalist.
If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general. James Whistler (1834-1903), US painter (Referring to his failure in a West Point chemistry examination)
The mole is a quantity of substance. The new prefix "guaca" is defined such that one guacamole equals Avocado's Number. G. Byrne
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun. Bumper sticker.
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