So there was a terrorist walking down a country road with a bomb in his
pocket when he sees an enemy spy approaching him. He slips the bomb out
of his pocket and throws it into a field. After a while a bull comes
along and sees the bomb. The bull sniffs it and then swallows it. Now, I
don't know about you, but I think that's a bomb in a bull.
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Isaac Asimov
“Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in
telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after
death?
No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.
One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst
out "Don't you believe in anything?"
Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement,
and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how
wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous
something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.”
― Isaac Asimov
