DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: SHUT YOUR YAP!
IT'S TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the Earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."
The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?"
"You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down."
(Disclaimer: I remembered the phrase, googled, and copied the above from Wikipedia.)
Comment Posted By ErnieG On 2.08.2005 @ 16:27