--- title: "3 Phil Mason Quotes" description: "Philip E. Mason is a British chemist and YouTuber with the online pseudonym Thunderf00t. He is best known for his critiques of religion, pseudoscience a..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/008/phil-mason-80842_english-literature_west-country-novelist-thomas-hardy-almos_539702.jpg" --- # Phil Mason **3** quotes in **9** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Philip E. Mason is a British chemist and YouTuber with the online pseudonym Thunderf00t. He is best known for his critiques of religion, pseudoscience and creationism. He works at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences. ## Quotes by Phil Mason > [“West Country novelist Thomas Hardy almost did not survive his birth in 1840 because everyone thought he was stillborn. He did not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-mason/west-country-novelist-thomas-hardy-almost-did-not-survive-his-birth/) Phil Mason [English literature](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/english-literature/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/008/phil-mason-80842_english-literature_west-country-novelist-thomas-hardy-almos_539702.jpg) > [“Oscar Wilde’s observation of the truth being rarely pure and never simple.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-mason/oscar-wilde-s-observation-of-the-truth-being-rarely-pure-and-never/) Phil Mason [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7c/phil-mason-80842_oscar-wilde_oscar-wilde-s-observation-of-the-truth-b_673751.jpg) > [“During the notorious McCarthy anti-Communist witch-hunt in the United States in the 1950s, popular hysteria could be whipped up with amazing ease.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-mason/during-the-notorious-mccarthy-anti-communist-witch-hunt-in-the-united/) Phil Mason [Mccarthyism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mccarthyism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f0/phil-mason-80842_quote_during-the-notorious-mccarthy-anti-commu_2230058.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-mason/#itemlist", "name": "Phil Mason Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“West Country novelist Thomas Hardy almost did not survive his birth in 1840 because everyone thought he was stillborn. He did not appear to be breathing and was put to one side for dead. The nurse attending the birth only by chance noticed a slight movement that showed the baby was in fact alive. He lived to be 87 and gave the world 18 novels, including some of the most widely read in English literature. When he did die, there was controversy over where he should be laid to rest. Public opinion felt him too famous to lie anywhere other than in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, the national shrine. He, however, had left clear instructions to be buried in Stinsford, near his birthplace and next to his parents, grandparents, first wife and sister. A compromise was brokered. His ashes were interred in the Abbey. His heart would be buried in his beloved home county. The plan agreed, his heart was taken to his sister’s house ready for burial. Shortly before, as it lay ready on the kitchen table, the family cat grabbed it and disappeared with it into the woods. 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