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Reality <- Dick


Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.

Philip K. DickHow To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later (1978)

Each little blurry light in this picture is a galaxy, full of billions of stars. This is just from one tiny square of the sky. It goes on endlessly, even if we don't know about it.

 
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Posted by on January 19, 2011 in education, Science, sentience

 

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Real Science is Never Certain


Climate bureaucrats violate the scientific method, by claiming certainty

Science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.

— Bertrand Russel, Religion and Science (1935)

 
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Posted by on August 9, 2010 in Politics

 

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Fastest Animal on Earth


when-cows-flyScientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.

— Dave Barry

 
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Posted by on August 22, 2009 in Humor

 

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