| Philip Guedalla – Hubert Horace
Lamb |
| Philip Guedalla 12. März 1889 London – 1944; Britischer Historiker, Essayist, Biograph und Politiker |
| "Das Vorwort ist der
wichtigste Teil eines Buches. Vorworte werden sogar von Rezensenten
gelesen." Zitiert nach: John D. Barrow: Die Entdeckung des Unmöglichen. Heidelberg, 1999, S.5 |
| "Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth
about other people." Zitiert nach Hugh Leonard, New York Times, 23.11. 1980 |
| "History repeats itself.
Historians repeat each other." "I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford." Some Historians: "Supers and Supermen", 1920 |
| Hubert Horace Lamb 1913 – 1991; Britischer Klimatologe. Hauptwerk: Climate: Present, Past and Future, 1972 |
I am an old man now, and when I
die and go to Heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightenment.
One is quantum electrodynamics, and the other is the turbulent motion of
fluids. And about the former I am really rather optimistic. –
 Dictionary of Earth Sciences –
Schmetterlingseffekt |
© by Herbert Huber, Am Fröschlanger 15, 83512 Wasserburg, Germany, 30.9.2002