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Original Message Date: 21 Sep 91 10:44:41
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From: Joe Krickenbarger-Oliver on 1:106/1557
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To: Tom Jennings on 1:125/111
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Subj: Quotes
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^AMSGID: 1:106/1557@@urchin.fido.org 840bb4d2
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Here's a few to add to your (Q)file...............
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"Rail travel at high speeds is not possible, because passengers, unable
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to breathe, would die of asphyxia"
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- Dr. Dionysys Lardner (1793-1859), professor of natural philosophy
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and astronomy at University College, London
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"Animals, which move, have limbs and muscles. The earth does not have
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limbs and muscles; therefore it does not move."
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- Scipio Chiarmonti
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"Far too noisy, my dear Mozart. Far to many notes."
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- The Emperor Ferdinand after the first performance of
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The Marriage of Figaro.
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"If Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is not by some means abridged, it will
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soon fall into disuse"
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- Philip Hale, Boston music critic, 1837
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"Flight by machines heavier that air is unpractical and insignificant,
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if not utterly impossible"
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- Simon Newcomb (1835-1909)
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"I can accept the theory of realativity as little as I can accept the
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existance of atoms and other such dogmas"
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- Ernst Mach (1838-1916), professsor of physics at the
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University of Vienna
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"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."
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- Decca Recording Company when turning down the Beatles in 1962.
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"The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor
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kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the <20>
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transformation
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of these atoms is talking moonshine"
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<EFBFBD>
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- Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) after he had split the atom the first time.
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"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist . . ."
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- The last words of General John Sedgwick spoken while
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looking over the parapet at enemy lines during the Battle
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of Spotsylvania in 1864.
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"You will never amount to very much"
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- A Munich Schoolmaster to Albert Einstein, aged 10.
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--- BYTE TJ's Dog
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* Origin (NETMAIL) (1:106/1557.0)
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