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 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")
(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")
Related:
- Quote #108
As a method of sending a missile to the higher,
and even to the highest parts of the earth's atmospheric... - Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and
reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum
against which to react.
He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily... - A Severe Strain on the Credulity
As a method of sending a missile to the higher,
and even to the highest parts of the earth's atmospheric... - If the colleges were better, if they really had it,
you would need to get the police at the gates to keep...
