Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) French philosopher
Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p.35
“If I am to believe newspaper reports (in reporting on the communal conflict, that is always a big "if"). (…) [The statement] is merely a typical exercise in the mendacious secularspeak of the Nehruvian elite…”
K. Elst : The Ayodhya Demolition: an Evaluation, in India., & Dasgupta, S. (1995). The Ayodhya reference: The Supreme Court judgement and commentaries.
1990s
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John Henry Schwarz (1941) American theoretical physicist
[Schwarz, J. H., Introduction to superstring theory, 2000, arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0008017, http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0008017] p. 5
“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”
John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy
The New York Times (15 September 1960)
“As for myself, I report more things than I believe; for I cannot bring myself to vouch for that which I am in doubt, nor to suppress what I have heard.”
Equidem plura transcribo quam credo; nam nec affirmare sustineo de quibus dubito, nec subducere quae accepi.
Quintus Curtius Rufus Roman historian
IX, 1, 34; translation by John Carew Rolfe
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IX
“I think that I am here, on this earth,
To present a report on it, but to whom I don't know.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"Consciousness," trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert Hass
Unattainable Earth (1986)
Context: I think that I am here, on this earth,
To present a report on it, but to whom I don't know.
As if I were sent so that whatever takes place
Has meaning because it changes into memory.
“I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?”
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
As quoted in a TED talk, " Asking Big Questions about the Universe http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/242"
William Foote Whyte (1914–2000) American sociologist
Source: Participant observer, 1994, p. 242; As cited in: Ickis (2014)
Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster
A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
p. 42
Dorothy Thompson’s Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874–1954) American mathematician
L. E. Dickson, during a discussion period that followed the presentation of a paper at a meeting of the American Mathematical Society, where he criticized the choice of the paper’s topic. Fifteen minutes later he presented a paper of his own outlining a proof that every sufficiently large integer can be written as a sum of, not 1140 tenth powers (the best previous result), but 1046 tenth powers. <br class="br">Source: Howard Eves in Return to Mathematical Circles http://primes.utm.edu/glossary/page.php?sort=Strobogrammatic