My youngest son was going out the door this afternoon, trying to figure out what to wear. He asked, “Is it a warm twelve degrees or a cold twelve degrees?” I said, “You’ll be fine the way you are. Unless we get the rain they have been saying is 100% likely for the last four hours.”
It was a bright sunny day. Not a drop of rain to be seen anywhere. Not a cloud in the sky.
Halfway up the stairs he stopped and said this: “They can’t tell us what’s going to happen in the next twelve hours, but they can tell us what’s been happening for the last six billion years.”
I said, “You have now learned everything important I could ever teach you.”
Not true, of course. There are much more important things than learning that scientists don’t know the tiniest fraction of what they are reputed to know. But some people never learn the basics.
Like 95% of our society.
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