Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.

- Dionysius Lardner

Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

- Dionysius Lardner

In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical art, but [...] t…

- Dionysius Lardner