“Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.” BelieveReasonAnimalHalfTheoryThousandTenCreaturesDoctorsJungleAntsBlueprintsGiraffe Book:The collected poems of John Ciardi Source: The collected poems of John Ciardi
“I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.” MadeTwoDifferentLightThreeSpeakCasesTheoryThousandProveDiscoveryConnectionsExperimentsElectricExaggerationElectric Light Author:Thomas A. Edison
“Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most healthful state.... Is there one person in a thousand who would truly enjoy a meal of simple bread of two days old?” PersonsTwoStatesEnjoySimplePracticeFoodTheoryThousandPureCookingBreadDietsMealsCulinaryArticlesSimplestTwo DaysStaples Book:The Young Housekeeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery Source: The Young Housekeeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery
“Remembering that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces.” TwoEarthRememberCoursesHeavenMillionsSunFiveTheoryThousandHundredShadowMethodCastsMathematicalThirtyFiftyPaceInclinationEmploying Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To claim that there are 'alternative (always better) Biblical explanations of the same data', which make creationism a reasonable alternative to our best theories of biology and physics, is appalling intellectual dishonesty.” YearsTheoryEvolutionThousandIntellectualEvidenceYears AgoClaimsPhysicsDataAlternativesExplanationReasonableBiologyOverwhelmingBiblicalThousand YearsDishonestyCreationismBiosphereScientific EvidenceIntellectual Dishonesty Author:David Deutsch