In addition to ‘Stats and the truth‘…

I had a great teacher for physics at my secondary school. Apart from the fact he was a total nutjob, he had some great thoughts about different subjects, ranging from religions to camera tripods. Some where just disposable but some where very interesting. Such as his thoughts about science.

In science, you are only making guesses. Estimations. You never quite know if what you have is the truth. For instance, you can count all ferns in the world and realise they’re all green, but you’re never certain. Never. You could never say “All ferns are green.”, because one purple fern, one miserable purple fern would destroy that theory.

This applies to basically everything. You can’t even know if the fridge light is switched off when you close the door!

This even goes well with the quote: “Conclusions happen when you get tired of thinking.”