Welsh Journalist Quotes

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

Henry Morton Stanley

The microwave background radiation, which fills even the corners of the universe, would psychologically have been more compelling evidence for the Big Bang if it had been predicted before its discovery in 1965. That it was not is something of a surprise, which is nevertheless now irrelevant.