“Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.” WayMightCultureWaterCitiesRussiaAccuracyContainingGreat CitiesCholeraTyphoid Book:The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill Source: The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill
“Vacuum stands and remains a mathematical space. A cube placed in a vacuum would not displace anything, as it would displace air or water in a space already containing those fluids.” WaterSpaceAirRemainsMathematicalFluidVacuumsContainingCubes Author:Roger Bacon
“The procedure has a strange Alice-in-Wonderland quality. The reservoir was created as a public water supply, yet the community, probably unconsulted about the sportsmen's project, is forced either to drink water containing poisonous residues or to pay our tax money for treatment of the water to remove the poisons - treatments that are by no means foolproof.” MeanWaterCommunityPayQualityStrangeDrinkTaxesProjectsEnvironmentalPoisonTreatmentRemoveProceduresPoisonousWonderlandContainingReservoirsDrink WaterSportsmanSilent SpringFoolproof Author:Rachel Carson