Theme: “I Needed Proof”

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.

That Made Me Wonder If He Wasn’t Ahead of His Time

Just a month before, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had left their colleague, Michael Collins, aboard spaceship Columbia and walked on the moon, beating by five months President Kennedy's goal of putting a man on the moon...

Source: My Life  by Bill Clinton

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

A Mass of Error and Deceptive Ideas

The theory of relativity he described as "a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of great men of science of the past and even to common sense.

Source: New York Times article July 11th 1935

Earth Had to Be a Sphere

It is not so much that certain educated men had not already theorized that Earth was round, but that with the return of the first ship Victoria the expedition’s wealthy financial backers had visual evidence that ships could circumnavigate the...

Source: JFK  by L. Fletcher Prouty

Did the Earth Really Orbit the Sun?

Another reason why the Greeks rejected Aristarchus’ Solar System was its apparent failure to stand up to scientific scrutiny. Aristarchus had built a model of the universe that was supposed to match reality, but it was not clear that his...

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