Fast Leg Theory

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

    “Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state,
    Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying
    Thought,”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean,
    The track aches only when the rain reminds.
    The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood.
    The one-armed man his jointed wooden arm.
    The blinded man sees with his ears and hands
    As much or more than once with both his eyes.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)

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