Anthony Watts (1958) American television meteorologist
Tom Minchin. Anthony Watts interviewed http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2010/06/anthony-watts-interviewed/, Quadrant magazine, June 30, 2010. <br class="br">2010
Anthony Watts (1958) American television meteorologist
Tom Minchin. Anthony Watts interviewed http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2010/06/anthony-watts-interviewed/, Quadrant magazine, June 30, 2010. <br class="br">2010
Holden Karnofsky (1981) American nonprofit executive
In "Transparency, measurement, humility" https://blog.givewell.org/2007/12/27/transparency-measurement-humility/, December 2007; see "Some Thoughts on Public Discourse" http://effective-altruism.com/ea/17o/some_thoughts_on_public_discourse/ for an update to Karnofsky's thoughts
John Constable (1776–1837) English Romantic painter
1836
Quoted in Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams, Constable, (Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1993), p. 37
1830s
Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) Portuguese explorer
This quotation is often found on the internet attributed to Magellan, but never with a source, and no English occurrence prior to its use by Robert Green Ingersoll in his essay "Individuality" http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/individuality.html (1873) has been located. Thus, it it most likely spurious. In that essay Ingersoll states:<br>It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, — some one who had the grandeur to say his say. I believe it was Magellan who said, "The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church." On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: The Church says that the Earth is Flat, but I know that it is Round. For I have seen its Shadow on the Moon and I have more Faith in a Shadow than in the Church. <br class="br">Source: As quoted in Oxford Academic (25 July 2013) http://oupacademic.tumblr.com/post/56463634957/misquotation-i-have-seen-the-shadow-of-the-earth <br>
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, Address at Chautauqua, New York (1936)
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
"Alphabet" [Alfabet] from "Five Children's Songs" (1934), trans. John Willett in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 239
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book III, Ch. 13. Of Experience
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Ernest King (1878–1956) United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations
King's first statement as Commander-in-Chief, United States fleet, sent on 24 December 1941. As quoted in History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume Three: The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931-April 1942 (1948) by Samuel Eliot Morison, p. 255