... it is queerer than we *can* suppose".
This quote comes directly out of "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson. I bought the book to answer questions about the universe, but already by page 36 it is generating questions rather than answering them!
What was Haldane saying?
Do you feel he was "queering you up" in the sense of "big it up for the universe!", except "queer it up for the universe!" instead?
Are you happy to live in a queer universe?
Do you think that as a biologist he was saying that queerness is all pervasive amongst species and straightness is the exception to the rule? Is that why so many dogs get it wrong? Aren't queer dogs cool?
I think this subject deserves to be discussed and anyone censoring it obviously has a problem living in a queer universe. What have you got against a queer universe?
2007-01-28 19:09:51 · 6 answers · asked by feeltherisingbuzz 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
You do know that the word originally meant "strange," right?
I have no problem living in either a strange or queer universe.
2007-01-28 19:19:13 · answer #1 · answered by Vaughn 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
um, if you look it up in the theasaurus, you will find that another word for queer is strange. Replace queer with strange and you have:
"The Universe is not only stranter than we suppose, it is stranger than we *can* suppose."
Doesn't that make a lot more sence?
2007-02-05 09:39:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in user-friendly words 2? we stay interior of our obstacles with the phantasm that we are able to work out outdoors them and understand each and every thing. that's like residing interior a bubble in a tide pool operating to figure out what that's all about, without thanks to work out the sea coast or ocean or Earth or sky, and so on., and so on.. Figuring that each and every one the bubbles must have once been interior a primordial atom in nothingness...that's the tremendous bang theory. we are up to now off beam in our visions of The Cosmos because we assume that such thoughts really make experience. like the mind operating to outline itself, we are in a container imagining we are able to work out obviously. The Universe is definitely a lot larger, older, extra complicated, and extra interrelated than we presently can imagine. yet that is partly via obdurate clinging to the former Genesis concept. that's no longer a fault of The Universe being too complicated, that's the fault of human nature to carry to the arogance that this variety of user-friendly non secular concept will be the answer to each and every thing. we are really stupid that way. that is a philosophical question pertaining to to the psychology of understanding and wondering and concept and thoughts. understanding how a lot we do not recognize is proper. protecting quick to an concept, like the tremendous bang theory, serves to stiffle expertise and make us ignorant of alternative opportunities and thoughts. "attempting to outline your self is like attempting to chew your own tooth". - Alan Watts someone stated that "...if the universe become user-friendly sufficient to appreciate, it would want to be too user-friendly to have produced us. (reminiscent of the concept if the human mind become user-friendly sufficient for us to appreciate it, lets be too thick to finish that!)".
2016-12-03 04:31:07 · answer #3 · answered by youngerman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are distorting Haldane's RULE and Haldane's Law.
The topic should be discussed in the biology category.
2007-01-28 19:25:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I imagine that what he was infering was that the world was strange .... queer in that sense.
The whole world is queer but thee and me.... and even thee!
2007-01-28 21:44:28 · answer #5 · answered by ticklemonster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ROTFLMAO. I don't think that's quite what he meant. but I'm happy living in a queer universe.
2007-01-28 19:25:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋