"Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia."
-Dr. Dionysus Lardner, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy (1793-1859)
"Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean."
-Dionysus Lardner
"It is an idle dream to imagine that automobiles will take the place of railways in the long distance movement of passengers."
American Railroad Congress, 1913
"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone."
-Charles Darwin
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—Rocky Russo
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