Bad First Assessment

From the things-we-wish-we'd-never-said category:

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."

Who said it? A bigwig at the Decca Recording ...

Computer Ignorance

OK, I'll admit it: I'm no computer whiz. I hardly know a gigabyte from a mosquito bite.

And it looks like I'm not alone. Just ask any technical support ...

Bad Facts

These responses actually appeared on real science tests:

"The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects."

"Mushrooms always grow in damp ...

A Negative Result

Seen on a bumper sticker: I took an IQ test and the results were negative.

The Unconsciously Incompetent

To be unconsciously incompetent is far from blissful ignorance. In fact, when I think about areas of my life where I don't know and don't know ...

An April Fools Day Gag

So, where's spaghetti come from, anyway? Would you believe a spaghetti farm?!

Maybe you wouldn't believe it, but many did. Just ask the thousands of Englishmen ...

Of Giants and Infants

We have too many men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. ... Ours is a world ...

Know-It-Alls

As the methods of science achieved greater and greater triumphs, both theoretical and practical, the old picture of how things are, the picture derived ...

The Pride of the Critics

How can human beings be so rash as to dare to pass judgment on something that they are not in the least able to understand?

What the Astronomers Don't Know

The experts don't know for sure how old or how big the universe is. They don't know what most of it is made of. They don't know in any detail how it began ...