Portal:Scotland/Selected quote/Week 27, 2008
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“ | ... Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ... | ” |
- — Lord Kelvin, spoken in 1895.
“ | ... I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland to govern the people of this kingdom well and justly than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world. ... | ” |
- — Louis IX of France, speaking to his eldest son, Louis.