Shake it! don’t break it!
It took your momma nine months to make it
—Brother Marquis
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I couldn’t find a clear attribution either. Apparently something similar was said by Hitler, but I have no idea when or where.
My guess is that it was an idea that was evolved between the two of them, and perhaps not spelled out in a single quote, but in fragments that were pieced together into something highfalutin’ by other writers.
I suppose it’s doubly hard to search for because the original - if there was one - would obviously have been in German.
Iirc it was supposedly in his book and in a totally different context from how it’s usually understood in the various versions attributed to Goebbels – he was accusing the Brits of doing it wrt WWI, or something. (I just never got around to reading the damn thing.)
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All scientific work is incomplete. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time.
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