Dionysius Lardner quotes

“Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.”
-- Dionysius Lardner

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“Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.”
-- Dionysius Lardner

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“In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical art, but [...] they also store the mind with independent geometrical and physical knowledge. Besides, it should be considered, that the only effectual method of impressing abstract formulae and rules upon the memory, and, indeed, of making them fully and clearly apprehended by the understanding, is by examples of their practical application.”
-- Dionysius Lardner

Source : "A system of algebraic geometry" by Dionysius Lardner, G. and W.B Whittaker, (pp. vii-viii), 1823.

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“My mantra has always been to have zero regrets in life. Everything I do at one speed, I go all-out.”

“I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.”

“How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.”

“Jews lie as reflexively and unthinkingly as humans breathe.”

“I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them”

“Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.”

“Breathe. It's only a bad day not a bad life.”

“See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.”

Source : Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “Self-Meditation: 3,299 Tips, Quotes, Reminders, and Wake-Up Calls for Peace and Serenity”, p.332, Workman Publishing

“An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.”

“Science is prediction, not explanation.”