A Theory That You Can’t Explain to a Bartender Is Probably No Damn Good
A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.
Intellectual Reference Point Restoration
Theme: “A Fact’s a Fact”
💬 Quote Library — containing “A Fact’s a Fact”
No Reasonable Man Could Doubt It
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
All Truth Passes Through Three Stages
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
📖 Excerpts Library
He Who Observes and Measures the Appearances of the Phenomenal World
Q. Define, then, the physical scientist. A. The physical scientist is he who observes and measures the appearances of the phenomenal world and from his data draws conclusions as to the nature of their causes. He deals, therefore, only with...
Source: The Science of the Initiates by Eugene Milne Cosgrove
You’re a Scientist. Stop Guessing. Know. Or Be Quite. That Is All.
You're a scientist. Stop guessing. Know. Or be quite. That is all.
Source: Prey
Accepted Only That Which It Could See and Touch
Since its beginnings in the seventeenth century, modern science has focused on the kind of “facts” that can be grasped by the senses and proven by measurement. It abandoned the religious explanations for the world, which posited an unseen God...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
They Merely Refused to Believe That It Was Divine Meddling
This is not to say that the new wave of philosophers necessarily wanted to deny the existence of the gods, rather that they merely refused to believe that it was divine meddling that was responsible for natural phenomena.
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
They Had at Least the Evidence of Their Senses
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as one per cent of us could give...
The Slaying of a Beautiful Hypothesis by an Ugly Fact
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...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
Discover the Truth
If he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him.
Source: The Truman Show
Nothing More than Reflected Sunlight
Throw in some assumptions, such as moonlight being nothing more than reflected sunlight, and a framework of scientific logic takes shape.
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
🎼 Song Excerpts
Just Knowing That the World Is Round
It's crazy, I'm thinking - Just knowing that the world is round - And here I'm dancing on the ground - Am I right side up or upside down? And is this real, or am I dreaming?
I Got the Message and the Message Is Proof
I got the message and the message is proof
I’m a Lord of the Science
Like Spud Webb I go to war with the giants, cause they just pawns in the game, but I'm a lord of the science
If It Ain’t Truth, It’s Philosophy
If it ain't truth, it's philosophy - You better use your words properly
And All This Science, I Don’t Understand
And all this science, I don't understand It's just my job five days a week
I Know What I Know, if You Know What I Mean
I'm not aware of too many things - I know what I know, if you know what I mean
I Got the Message and the Message Is Clear
I got the message and the message is clear
It Belongs to Them, Let’s Give It Back
The time has come - A fact's a fact - It belongs to them - Let's give it back
The World We Hold So Tight and True, Turn It On It’s Head
Even cold hard facts have got a way of changing their stripes in the light of a new day - The world we hold so tight and true - Turn it on it's head
🧵 Narrative Threads containing “A Fact’s a Fact”
Cause Everything Is Never As It Seems…
With a wave of his hand, he had made the Earth a planet and set it spinning.
