I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.
Malcolm MuggeridgeTags: evolution joke credulity gullibility darwin posterity neo-darwinism closed-mindedness theory-of-evolution
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
Antoine LavoisierTags: science french theory discovery invention chemistry posterity scientist scientific-theory oxygen-theory
Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. (And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.)
Pierre de FermatTags: humor science knowledge funny posterity scientist ancients mathematician thank fermat-s-theorem
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