Famous quotes containing the words smith and/or began:
“Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist?”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.... And a man who is puzzled and wonders thinks himself ignorant ...; therefore since they philosophized in order to escape from ignorance, evidently they were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)