Heavier than air flying machines are impossible.
– Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society.

A rocket will never be able to leave the earth’s atmosphere.
– New York Times, 1920.

Space travel is bunk.
– Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal, two weeks before Sputnik

Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.
– Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.

The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.
– Sir John Eric Ericksen, Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
– Marechal Ferdinand Foch

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
– Irving Fisher, Yale University, 1929.

There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the Unided States.
– T. Craven, FCC Commissioner, 1961

It will be years — not in my time — before a woman will become Prime Minister.
– Margaret Thatcher, 1974.

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
– Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

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II Peter 3:3-4

3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.