When Samuelson first propounded this potentially radical idea, it was greeted with astonishment, bordering on outrage.
-- Jonathan Davis, "Samuelson's argument still holds true", Independent, October 4, 1997
Aristarchus not only challenged God, but he, and then Copernicus, propounded a theory that seemed so stupid on the face of it that even a fool would not believe it.
-- William E. Burrows, This New Ocean
