in an address to the University of Edinburgh graduates, as quoted by [Cargill Gilston Knott, Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait, Cambridge University Press, 1911, 11]
Peter Guthrie Tait: Citáty v angličtine
“Oh, that's nothing – I could coach a coal scuttle to be Senior Wrangler.”
when complimented about coaching his one pupil scoring higher than his rival's pupils at Peterhouse Tripos, as quoted by [Cargill Gilston Knott, Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait, Cambridge University Press, 1911, http://books.google.com/books?id=PSU9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA11, 11]
in Note on a Quaternion Transformation , Communication read on Monday, 6th April, 1863, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1866), p. 117.