Original Message Date: 21 Sep 91  10:44:41
From: Joe Krickenbarger-Oliver on 1:106/1557
To: Tom Jennings on 1:125/111
Subj: Quotes
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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
to breathe, would die of asphyxia"
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- Dr. Dionysys Lardner (1793-1859), professor of natural philosophy
and astronomy at University College, London

"Animals, which move, have limbs and muscles.  The earth does not have
limbs and muscles; therefore it does not move."
                        - 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
The Marriage of Figaro.

"If Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is not by some means abridged, it will
soon fall into disuse"
                     - Philip Hale, Boston music critic, 1837

"Flight by machines heavier that air is unpractical and insignificant,
if not utterly impossible"
                        - Simon Newcomb (1835-1909)

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"I can accept the theory of realativity as little as I can accept the
existance of atoms and other such dogmas"
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- Ernst Mach (1838-1916), professsor of physics at the
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
kind of thing.  Anyone who expects a source of power from the �
transformation
of these atoms is talking moonshine"
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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
looking over the parapet at enemy lines during the Battle
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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