Smoke Test

Famous quotes containing the words smoke and/or test:

“Than smoke and mist who better could appraise
The kindred spirit of an inner haze?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“It is commonly said ... that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humour, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)