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"That Professor Goddard with his 'chair' in
Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution
does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to
have something better than a vacuum against which to react--to say
that would be absurd. Of course, he only seems to lack the knowledge
ladled out daily in high schools." -- 1921 New York Times
editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work. The
remark was retracted in the July 17, 1969 issue.
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