Quirks

Originally posted by mechame:

TED is not my idea od a good time to listen to.

Originally posted by R.H. Goddard:

Just as in the sciences we have learned that we are too ignorant to safely pronounce anything impossible, so for the individual, since we cannot know just what are his limitations, we can hardly say with certainty that anything is necessarily within or beyond his grasp.

Each must remember that no one can predict to what heights of wealth, fame, or usefulness he may rise until he has honestly endeavoured and he should derive courage from the fact that all sciences have been, at some time, in the same condition as he.

And that it has often proved true that the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Originally posted by New York Times 13 January, 1920:

on Goddard's proposal to launch rockets beyond the atmosphere:

After the rocket quits our air and really starts on its longer journey, its flight would be neither accelerated nor maintained by the explosion of the charges it then might have left.

To claim that it would be is to deny a fundamental law of dynamics, and only Dr. Einstein and his chosen dozen, so few and fit, are licensed to do that.

That Professor Goddard does not know the relation of action and reaction and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react to would be absurd.

Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.

Originally posted by mechame:

I thought it was cute. I actual made one just for fun in my yard.