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“From him [Wilard Bennett] I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known! [While an undergraduate, doing experimental measurements in the laboratory of his professor, at Ohio State University.]”

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William M. Fowler

William M. Fowler, born on July 25, 1944, is a renowned author whose works span a variety of fields, including history, science, and literature. more

“A man of about fifty-four years of age, had begun, five or six months before, to be somewhat emaciated in his whole body...a troublesome vomiting came on, of a fluid which resembl’d water, tinctur’d with soot.... Death took place.... In the stomach...was an ulcerated cancerous tumour.... Betwixt the stomach and the spleen were two glandular bodies, of the bigness of a bean, and in their colour, and substance, not much unlike that tumour which I have describ’d in the stomach.”

Men Years Two Whole Body Age Death Water Five Four Months Six Substance Colour Fifty Stomach Four Years Six Months Fluid Beans Troublesome Vomiting Spleen

Author:Giovanni Battista Morgagni

“Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes its truth. The reef-forming coral zoophytes, as has been shown, cannot grow at greater depths than 100 or 120 feet; and therefore in seas deeper than this, the formation or growth of reefs over the bottom is impossible.”

Has Beens Facts Grows Growth Simple Greater Growing Impossible Sea Feet Ocean Negative Depth Bottom Deeper Formation Reefs Coral Reefs

Author:James Dwight Dana

“Mr Hall's hypothesis has its cause for subsidence, but none for the lifting of the thickened sunken crust into mountains. It is a theory for the origin of mountains, with the origin of mountains left out.”

Left Causes Theory Mountain Halls Hypothesis Lifting Left Out

Author:James Dwight Dana

“The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.”

Feet Thousand Tall Flags Staff

Author:Gustave Eiffel

“...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.”

“...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are both very beautiful and absorbingly interesting. The rapid growth of their spores, the way they live on each other, the manner in which the different forms come and go, is so amazing and varied that I believe a man could spend his life and not exhaust the forms or problems contained in one plate of manure.”

“We [Frisch and Lise Meitner] walked up and down in the snow, I on skis and she on foot (she said and proved that she could get along just as fast that way), and gradually the idea took shape that this was no chipping or cracking of the nucleus but rather a process to be explained by Bohr's idea that the nucleus was like a liquid drop; such a drop might elongate and divide itself.”

Way Said Ideas Might Process Feet Shapes Snow Divides Up And Down Liquid Skis Nucleus

Author:Otto Robert Frisch

“. . . for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst.”

Knowing Worst

Book:History of His Own Time: From the revolution to the conclusion of the treaty of peace at Utrecht, in the reign of Queen Anne : to which is added the author's life

Source: History of His Own Time: From the revolution to the conclusion of the treaty of peace at Utrecht, in the reign of Queen Anne : to which is added the author's life

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