Strange & Unusual Sayings

I have studied these things – you have not.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

I die the King's good servant, but God's first.

The progress of science is slow, but it is sure.

I have saved my country. I have avenged America.

The steam engine is my child, and I shall see it grow.

I can assert that the Natives are a very cowardly people.

I die as I have lived, a servant of science and a victim of the French Revolution.