“I’m an old-fashioned copper–I don’t believe in breaking the laws of thermodynamics.”
Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho
Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 7, “Almost Like Being in Love” (p. 141)
The Junket (p. 320)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)
“I’m an old-fashioned copper–I don’t believe in breaking the laws of thermodynamics.”
Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho
Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 7, “Almost Like Being in Love” (p. 141)
“Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.”
Izaak Walton book The Compleat Angler
Part I, ch. 4.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)
“Old questions are not answered—they only go out of fashion.”
Donald A. Schön (1930–1997) American academic
Schon (1971, 42) cited in: William G. Weissert, Carol S. Weissert (2012) Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy. p. 296
“So may we old-fashionably suggest the Unmarried not undress?”
Bullet to Binary (Pt.2).
It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright (2009)
Daniel Goleman (1946) American psychologist & journalist
Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1995), p. 285