Quote #109
(leicht Divergierend:)
"That Professor Goddard With His 'chair' In Clark College And The
Countenancing Of The Smithsonian Institution Does Not Know The Relation Of
Action To Reactio
(leicht divergierend:)
"That Professor Goddard with his 'chair' in Clark College and the
countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution does not know the relation of
action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum
against which to react - to say that would be absurd. Of course he only
seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools..."
(New York Times editorial, 1921, quoted in "A Random Walk in Science")