Scientific Revolution Led by Band of Deluded Half-wits
Modern man, it seems, has been much too generous in his estimation of the supposed “fathers of science.” Long held to be towering geniuses in multiple fields, recent historical documents have revealed our hidden suspicions: that religious men of the likes of Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Tycho Brahe, Renee Descartes and Francis Bacon (all contemporaries) were — to use the scientific term — idiot nutjobs.
Apparently, they could barely string two sentences together.
“God, God, science, God, God?” queried Kepler. “No, no. God, science, Gody-god…God,” answered Bacon.
This excerpt (under the chapter heading Dialogue Concerning Two Chief Loons), was found in the recently discovered diary of theologian and pseudo-scientist, Robert Boyle. It illustrates the true mental state of a g...