Funny quote
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Funny quote
This is a quote taken from The Times in London, written by Bernard Levin, in an anti-science tirade which highlighted the worthlessness of various scientific discoveries, mocked it for not being able to explain God, and accused scientists of generally being arrogant, stubborn bastards. Here he deals with the idea of quarks, which he looks down upon as a silly pointless concept:
"Can you eat quarks? Can you spread them on your bed when the cold weather comes?"
A Cambridge scientist, Sir Alan Cottrell responded a few days later (to the Editor):
"Sir: Mr. Bernard Levin asks 'Can you eat quarks?' I estimate that he eats 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,001 quarks a day...Yours faithfully..."
This just made me laugh, I don't know why.
"Can you eat quarks? Can you spread them on your bed when the cold weather comes?"
A Cambridge scientist, Sir Alan Cottrell responded a few days later (to the Editor):
"Sir: Mr. Bernard Levin asks 'Can you eat quarks?' I estimate that he eats 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,001 quarks a day...Yours faithfully..."
This just made me laugh, I don't know why.
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By his idiotic "if it's not macroscopic, it doesn't exist" mentality, even things like blood cells and neutrons aren't real either.
For a time, I considered sparing your wretched little planet Cybertron.
But now, you shall witnesss ... its dismemberment!
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But now, you shall witnesss ... its dismemberment!
"This is what happens when you use trivia napkins for research material"- Sea Skimmer on "Pearl Harbour".
"Do you work out? Your hands are so strong! Especially the right one!"- spoken to Bud Bundy
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I would like to provide a link, Wicked; unfortunately, the article was written in 1996, and the quote I got of it was reprinted in the book Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins, which I received an excerpt of in my Science & Pseudoscience class.
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Would this happen to be the article you are talking about?
Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins.
Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins.
No, the article I was referring to was taken from a book; this is a lecture, however, it appears to cover much of the same ground.Sir Sirius wrote:Would this happen to be the article you are talking about?
Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins.
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There will always be pinheads who hate science and try to attack its intellectual underpinnings, for the simple but unstated reason that they're too stupid to comprehend it and too arrogant to accept anything which doesn't intuitively "feel right" to them.
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"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
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It's the perfect number, really.Andrew J. wrote:It's the 1 at the end that really made me laugh.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -Herbert Spencer
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"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." - Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, III vi.