Comments on: Insane Clown Posse Dissed Scientists; Lab-Coated Geeks Strike Back

By: scienceteach

scienceteach — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:34:19 +0000

yal the reason tilla taquilla got beat up ..do the science on that fact..

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:55:36 +0000

@4. aki,

That was Arthur C. Clarke. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

I liked that the Insane Clown Posse posed the question. I loved that Nosebridge cared enough to answer it! Even if ICP (perhaps rhetorically) tried preemptively to avoid a literal answer. I guess the juggalos prevailed on that matter.

By: aki

aki — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:37:17 +0000

Isn’t there some quote along the lines of . . .any thoroughly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic?

By: Adexterc

Adexterc — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:10:30 +0000

There are only three questions you can ask: What happened; how did it happen; and why did it happen? Science is really good at answering some of the first two, and does not recognize the existence of the third. But most of the really, really important questions are “whys?”. Why war? Why genocide? Why love? Why Hitler? Why Schweitzer? Science will never answer those questions, but ignoring their existence is truly crippling.

By: Paul Hannah

Paul Hannah — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:31:03 +0000

Every thing that is not understood is magic to the ignorant, that’s the point. A pocket calculator would be magic to Isaac Newton, binoculars magic to Plato. Only when you realise that there is no why only a how can you be free from this superstition that cripples you.

By: Idlewilde

Idlewilde — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:51:39 +0000

Maybe it is magic, and scientists, who know the how but not the why, are the magicians. First comment! Oh yeah!