Hollow Earth Hypothesis

Famous quotes containing the words hollow, earth and/or hypothesis:

    Ye could not know where lies a thing so fair,
    No stone is there to show, no tongue to say,
    What was; no dirge, except the hollow sea’s,
    Mourns o’er the beauty of the Cyclades.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    But money, wife, is the true Fuller’s Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
    John Gay (1685–1732)

    Oversimplified, Mercier’s Hypothesis would run like this: “Wit is always absurd and true, humor absurd and untrue.”
    Vivian Mercier (b. 1919)