(October 16, 2014 at 2:35 am)Esquilax Wrote: Heh, should I be worried? I'm flying into the States Saturday night.I won't say that NYC is unique in terms of big city experiences, but it's a special brand of awful in some cases. It was a lot worse from the 70s to the mid-90s, though. Me, I'm just ~270 days from moving to the suburbs and leaving the big city behind for as long as I am able to.
(Apparently for the sake of easing the transition, the local county that I am moving to has spent the last several months razing a small forest of trees to create a shopping development. Because that's why I moved to the suburbs, to replace trees and grass with concrete and asphalt.)
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
