Aristotle: Some 2,000 years ago Aristotle declared that eels were generated spontaneously from mud.

Some 2,000 years ago Aristotle declared that eels were generated spontaneously f — Aristotle

Some 2,000 years ago Aristotle declared that eels were generated spontaneously from mud.

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It is impossible for motion to subsist without place, and void, and time. — Aristotle
Aristotle was the first genuine scientist in history. . . . Every scientist is i — Aristotle
Liars … when they speak the truth they are not believed. — Aristotle
It is impossible that each of the elements should be infinite. For that is body — Aristotle
The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied peni — Sigmund Freud
it is absurd … to hope that maybe another Newton may some day arise, to make int — Immanuel Kant
Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting the Sun as its center & depending on — Isaac Newton
A luminous body when obscured by a dense atmosphere will appear smaller; as may — Leonardo da Vinci
Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars. — Walt Whitman
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. — Frederick Douglass
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love a — Stendhal in The Pink and the Green
But they whom truth and wisdom lead Can gather honey from a weed. — William Cowper