Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
Source: Science and Hypothesis (1901), Ch. IX: Hypotheses in Physics, Tr. George Bruce Halsted (1913)
Context: The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 9, “Cold and Curses” (p. 207).
“Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”
“Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.”
“Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 21
“I have the ability to pick stones thrown at me to build a staircase to climb up.”
Quoted from Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: Rise and rise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi https://indianexpress.com/article/india/narendra-modi-lok-sabha-elections-2019-result-bjp-congress-seats-counting-5745459/
“These houses are intended to have stone walls.”
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Context: These houses are intended to have stone walls.... The fact that a stone house is better in many ways than a wooden one, and also more economical in the long run has, for the most part, been overlooked... The conditions are... ripe for a change from wood to stone or other incombustible material, but it will doubtless come about slowly.<!-- Introduction
"I'd Love To Be A Fairy's Child".
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
“Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!”
Source: "Second Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920)
