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: “Supposed to Match Reality”
💬 Quote Library — containing “Supposed to Match Reality”
A Structure Which Has No Relation to Reality
Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
📖 Excerpts Library
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
How Do You Balance Science with Science Fiction?
How do you balance science with science fiction? They're both the same.
Source: Astronomy magazine asks William Shatner about science
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 Are Metaphysicists Rather Than Scientists
"The theory," he said, "wraps all these errors and fallacies and clothes them in magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people...
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.
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
Different Theories Add Strength to the Edifice
This architecture of scientific logic has an inherent beauty which emerges from how various arguments fit together, how several measurements interlock with one another, and how different theories are suddenly introduced to add strength to the edifice.
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
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
The Men in Black, Their Lips Are Sealed
Don't ask if they are real - The men in black, their lips are sealed
Source: Take Me Away by Blue Öyster Cult
🧵 Narrative Threads containing “Supposed to Match Reality”
Think About the Place Where You Live
If you are confused, check with the sun. Carry a compass to help you along. Your feet are going to be on the ground. Your head is there to move you around.
I Was Just Guessing at Numbers and Figures
Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be so hard. I’m going back to the start.
