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"You will never amount to very much" 
 A Munich schoolmaster to Albert Einstein, aged 10

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." 
 The last words of General John Sedgewick at the Battle of Spotsylvania 1864

"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out"
 Decca Records turning down The Beatles in 1962. (They were turned down by
 Pye, Columbia and HMV!)



"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not
 uterly impossible"
 Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) The first flight by the Wright Brothers 18 months
 later did not affect his opinion.

"Stanley Matthews lacks the big match temperament. He will never hold down a
 regular first team place in top class soccer"
 Unsigned football writer when Matthews, the future captain of England, made
 his debut at the age of 17.

"Rembrandt is not to be compared in the painting of character with our 
 extraordinary gifted English artist, Mr Rippingille"
 John Hunt (1775-1848)

"Rail travel at high speeds is not possible, because passengers unable to 
 breath, would die of asphyxia"
 Dionysys Lardner (1793-1859), professor of natural philosophy and astronomy
 at University College, London.


"Far too noisy, my dear Mozart. Far too many notes"
 Emperor Ferdinand after the first performance of The Marriage Of Figaro

"The energy produced by the breaking down the atom is a very poor kind of
 thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these
 atoms is talking moonshine."
 Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) after the first splitting of the atom

"Animals, which move, have limbs and muscles. The earth does not have limbs 
 and muscles; therefore it does not move"
 Scipio Chiaramonti