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3 Matches Found.
- Archimedes (287-212 BC) Greek Mathematician and Inventor
Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth - remarking on the lever.
- Henry Fielding (1707-1754) British Playwright and Novelist
And do not the warm, rapturous sensations which we feel from the counsciousness of an honest, noble, generous, benevolent action convey more delight to the mind than the undeserved praise of millions?
- Thomas Kinsella, politician, at the funeral of John Roebling
The great boast of this land, he wrote "it twofold - the political works fo the (founding) fathers, and the material triumphs of sicence, of which Roebling was,with scarcely any exception, the greatest hero". But the politician of the present, he went on, was nothing more than "a thing of tricks and dodges." About all a modern day politician could do was to undo "the grand creation of former days." The politicians words and deeds were as nothing, he said, when compared with the works of a man like John A. Roebling." "One such life as Roebling's was worth more than those of a whole convention full of jabbering and wrangling politicians".
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