10@PopularMechanics _ March 2019 71(^1) “I had to tell somebody,
anybody, that we’d busted
straight through the sound
barrier. But the transmissions
were restricted. ‘Hey Ridley!’
I called. ‘Make another note.
There’s something wrong
with this Machmeter. It’s gone
completely screwy!’” —Chuck
Yeager, “Breaking the Sound
Barrier,” October 1997
(^2) “All successful inventors
know about depositions. They
learn to live with them the way
one learns to live with arthri-
tis.” —Tom Wolfe, “ Land of
Wizards,” July 1986
(^3) “Space is where great
scientific and commercial
breakthroughs of the future
will be made. Space is where
we can achieve progress in
making our country safer
from ballistic missile attack.
Space is also where medi-
cines of the future will be
made, and where some of
our children may make their
living.” —George H.W. Bush,
“The American Adventure,”
May 1989
(^4) “Science is the cause. Her
feeble groping fingers lifted
here and there, often trampled
underfoot, often frozen in
isolation, have now become a
vast organized, united, class-
conscious army marching
forward upon all the fronts
toward objectives none may
measure or define.” —Winston
Churchill, “Fifty Years Hence,”
March 1932
(^5) “In the absence of absolute
knowledge one theory is as
good as another, as long as it
meets all the requirements
of practical tests. My theory
may be upset tomorrow, but
Of the thousands of writers
and thousands of statements
we’ve published, here are
some of our favorites.
today I look at it
as the best of all.”
—Thomas Edison,
“Edison’s Theory of Radium,”
October 1903
(^6) “Technology is really just
an amplifier of our abilities. It
builds on itself, letting us do
more—and do it faster.”
—Steve Wozniak, “Innovation,
Defined,” December/January
2015
(^7) “A monument should be
singular. Fate and happen-
stance have endowed this
democracy with a constella-
tion of remarkably varied and
aesthetically impressive rep-
resentations of our national
adventure, and this endow-
ment should be enlarged with
care.” —John Updike, “Sacred
Places,” May 1989
(^8) “The primary object of our
forest policy, as of the land
policy of the United States,
is the making of prosperous
homes...You can start a
prosperous home by destroy-
ing the forests, but you cannot
keep it prosperous that way.”
—Teddy Roosevelt, “The
Forests Are the Nation’s
Life,” January 1904
(^9) “If a boy hopes to be a good
football player, the main things
he needs are brains, courage,
self-restraint, coordination,
fire of nervous energy and an
unselfish point of view, ready
to sacrifice for the team as a
whole. Of course, he must
have a bit of speed and a bit
of physique, but then these
things are taken for granted.”
—Knute Rockne, “How to Be a
Football Star,” October 1926
(^10) “Americans want the build-
ing to continue. They expect
and deserve a government
that will allow that to happen.”
—Ronald Reagan, “The Build-
ing of America,” July 1986
(^11) “All that I did was to avail
myself of the great privileges
of the fiction writer, spring
over every scientific difficulty
with fancy’s seven-leagued
boots, and create on paper
what other men were planning
out in steel and other metals.”
—Jules Verne, “Future of the
Submarine,” June 1904
(^12) “Unrestricted dumping in
rivers, lakes, and coastal waters
harms the habitat and harms
the fish. You don’t have to be a
fisherman to understand this,
it’s plain to anyone.” —Ted
Williams, “Fishing Holes U.S.A.,”
May 1989
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TO INVESTIGATE SALE OF HORSE MEAT
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“World Wonders”
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MARCH 1957