Ocupation: Writer
Life: 1780 - 1832
Birthday: 1780
Death: 1832
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
source: Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.5
topic: Fall, Vacuums, Velocity, Guinea, Declamation, Empty Heads