"[This saying of Alphonso about Ptolemy's astronomy, that] "it seemed a crank machine; that it was pity the Creator had not taken advice.""
— Creationism

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Carlyle, History of Frederick the Great, Book II, Chapter VII. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 147-148.