Footnote Physicist

          “How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?  Four.  Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't           make it a leg.”           – President Abraham Lincoln I           “Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact .           – Thomas Huxley II           “Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless           to fallacy in logic.”           – Thomas Huxley III           “Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a           veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from t...

          “Why?”           “Well, because some things are, and some things are not.”           “Why?”           “Well because things that are not can't be! ”           “Why?”           “Because then nothing wouldn't be!   You can't have fucking nothing isn't!   Everything is!”           “Why?”           “'Cause if nothing wasn't, there'd be fucking all kinds of shit that we don't—like giant ants with           top-hats, dancing around. There's no room for all that shit.”           – Louis C.K. I           At the base of epistemology is logic.  These are the most basic laws of reality that cannot be broken—thi...