“Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
"Early Forms of Liability," Lecture I from The Common Law. (1909).
1900s
The Voyage into the Dark (1961); also in My Life and Views (1968), p. 154
“Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
"Early Forms of Liability," Lecture I from The Common Law. (1909).
1900s
Henri Poincaré book Science and Hypothesis
... les traités de mécanique ne distinguent pas bien nettement ce qui est expérience, ce qui est raisonnement mathématique, ce qui est convention, ce qui est hypothèse.
Source: Science and Hypothesis (1901), Ch. VI: The Classical Mechanics, Tr. George Bruce Halsted (1913)
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
"Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination" in Profiles of the Future (1962)
Perhaps the adjective "elderly" requires definition. In physics, mathematics, and astronautics it means over thirty; in the other disciplines, senile decay is sometimes postponed to the forties. There are, of course, glorious exceptions; but as every researcher just out of college knows, scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory!
"Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination" in Profiles of the Future (1962; as revised in 1973)
On Clarke's Laws
James Mirrlees (1936–2018) Scottish economist
James Mirrlees in: Anders Barany, Nobelstiftelsen (1996). Les Prix Nobel. p. 353
John F. Sowa (1940) artificial intelligence researcher
Source: Conceptual Structures, 1984, p. 91. cited in: C.J. van Rijsbergen, F. Crestani, M. Lalmas (1998) Information Retrieval: Uncertainty and Logics. p. 59
Samuel Taylor Coleridge book Biographia Literaria
On The Comedy of Errors, in Ch. XV.
Biographia Literaria (1817)
Context: The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.
Shahrukh Khan (1965) Indian actor, producer and television personality
From interview with Anshul Chaturvedi