According to a commonly told story, when eminent French mathematician Laplace showed Napoleon his treatise on celestial mechanics, Napoleon asked him what place God had in his theory...
...Laplace replied "I have no need for that hypothesis."
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suicidedoggie:
I love those images. Incomprehensibly large. And yet, as Blake noted, a universe in a grain of sand. Strange actually because only 10 mins ago I was in a vid store picking up a movie and noticed MiB playing on teh TV screens. It was the bit where the known universe is shown in the cat's trinket.
suicidedoggie:
Nav skills? My dad once tried to take a baring from a moving sheep. He thoguht it was a rocky outcrop. He also once famously calculated our yacht's position to be in the middle of an Island called Mull when we were in fact clearly out at sea. 