But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past

by Chuck Klosterman

If mankind could believe something false was objectively true for two thousand years, why do we reflexively assume that our current understanding of gravity—which we’ve embraced for a mere three hundred fifty years—will somehow exist forever?

It’s either meaningful or meaningless, which is probably why no one will ever stop talking about it.

It would be pretty idiotic if I never left my apartment building, based on the remote mathematical possibility that a Komodo dragon might be sitting in the lobby.