Dionysius Lardner Quotes

• Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

  Dionisio Lardner

  Follow Your Dreams, Aviation, Speed

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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.

  Dionisio Lardner

  Ocean, Future, Moon

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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.

  Dionisio Lardner

  Art, Memories, Independent

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

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