| "Heaven and earth were created all together in the same instant, on October 23rd, 4004 BC at nine o'clock in the morning."
Professor John Lightfoot, Vice-chancellor of Cambridge University "Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia."
Dr Dionysus Lardner (1793-1859), professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, University College London. "Animals, which move, have limbs and muscles. The earth does not have limbs and muscles; therefore it does not move."
Scipio Chiaramonti, Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of Pisa (1633). "[Television] won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get
tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century-Fox in 1946.
"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?"
The Quarterly Review, England (March 1825) | 
