Britannica Quotes

6 quotes by 5 authors

• The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the… — Stephen Leacock
• Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,' and somebody else… — Paul Desmond
• The Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, devotes 20,000 words to the person of Jesus Christ and never once hints that He didn't exist. — John Ankerberg
• There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over. — Richard Dawkins
• Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. — Stephen Leacock
• Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia. — James Gleick

Who Wrote These Britannica Quotes

5 authors contributed a total of 6 Britannica Quotes as follows:

• 2 Britannica Quotes by Stephen Leacock
• 1 Britannica Quote by Paul Desmond
• 1 Britannica Quote by John Ankerberg
• 1 Britannica Quote by Richard Dawkins
• 1 Britannica Quote by James Gleick