There was a young man who said, "God To you it must seem very odd That a tree as a tree simply ceases to be When there's no one about in the Quad."... Young man, your astonishment's odd, I am always about in the Quad And that's why the tree continues to be As observed by, Yours faithfully, God.


In: Joseph Needham and Walter Pagel (eds.), Background to Modern Science, From Aristotle to Galileo (pp. 40—41)

William Cecil Dampier Quotes

There was a young man who said, God To you it must seem very odd That a tree as a tree simply ceases to be When there's no one about in the Quad.......

There was a young man who said, God To you it must seem very odd That a tree as a tree simply ceases to be When there's no one about in the Quad.......

There was a young man who said, God To you it must seem very odd That a tree as a tree simply ceases to be When there's no one about in the Quad.......

There was a young man who said, God To you it must seem very odd That a tree as a tree simply ceases to be When there's no one about in the Quad.......