Fast Leg Theory

Famous quotes containing the words fast, leg and/or theory:

“Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“Farmers in overalls and wide-brimmed straw hats lounge about the store on hot summer days, when the most common sound is the thump-thump-thump of a hound’s leg on the floor as he scratches contentedly. Oldtime hunters say that fleas are a hound’s salvation: his constant twisting and clawing in pursuit of the tormentors keeps his joints supple.”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)