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Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1813), Birth: 7-2-1873, Death: 26-11-1885
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Let the Truth be known, no ship is unsinkable. The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her. I learned long ago that if you design how a ship'll sink, you can keep her afloat. I proposed all the watertight compartments and the double hull to slow these ships from sinking. In that way, you get everyone off. There's time for help to arrive, and the ship's less likely to break apart and kill someone while she's going down.
Thomas Andrews

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We may indeed live yet to see, or at least we may feel some confidence that those who come after us will see, such bodies as oxygen and hydrogen in the liquid, perhaps even in the solid state, and the question of their metallic or non-metallic nature thereby finally settled.
Thomas Andrews

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There exists for every liquid a temperature at which no amount of pressure is sufficient to retain it in the liquid form.
Thomas Andrews

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The more [people] know about the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the less they support it.
Thomas Andrews