Turtles All The Way Down

Why Most Businesses Are Just Houses Made of Cards The scientist Bertrand Russell once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how earth orbits the sun, and the forces holding our galaxy together. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady stood up in the back of the theater and said, "What you've just told us is rubbish. The world is a flat plate, resting on the back of a giant tortoise." Russell asked, "What is the tortoise resting on?' The old lady replied, "You're very clever, s...