It is the supreme challenge, and a brutal one, but every scientific theory must be testable and compatible with reality. The nineteenth-century naturalist Thomas Huxley stated it thus:
‘The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.’
If wishes were trees
the trees would be falling
Listen to reason
Reason is calling
Listen to reason
Season is calling
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
and every day the paper boy brings more
People asking questions,
lost in confusion
What good is livin’ the life you’ve been given
If all you do is stand in place?
First, the Greeks expected that if the Earth moved then we would feel a constant wind blowing against us, and we would be swept off our feet as the ground raced from under us. However, we feel no such constant wind, and neither is the ground tugged away, so the Greeks concluded that the Earth must be stationary.
I have done a good thing,
I’ve got you moving,
everybody’s dancing
