For, lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. (The Song of Solomon ii. 11, 12)*
From August 9, 2012
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the turtle standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the little old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down." (Stephen William Hawking (b. 1942), British theoretical physicist)

*The turtle is a dove in this quote, but we'll take it.  All in the family!

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