Dionysius Lardner quotes
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“Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.”
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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.”
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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 LardnerSource : "A system of algebraic geometry" by Dionysius Lardner, G. and W.B Whittaker, (pp. vii-viii), 1823.
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“Jews lie as reflexively and unthinkingly as humans breathe.”
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“I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them”
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Source : Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “Self-Meditation: 3,299 Tips, Quotes, Reminders, and Wake-Up Calls for Peace and Serenity”, p.332, Workman Publishing
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