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One thing quarks do have going for them: all their names are simple—something chemists, biologists, and especially geologists seem incapable of achieving when naming their own stuff.
This was just the start of his jabs at other sciences.
“Another Anglo-Saxon joke goes like this: Q: What has two ears and one eye, two feet and 1,200 heads, one belly, one back, one pair of hands and one neck? A: A one-eyed garlic seller with 1,200 heads of garlic. You probably had to be there.”
― 1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England
― 1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England
“I hate this shallow Americanism,” Emerson proclaimed in an 1859 lecture, “which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study.”
― Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
― Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
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