"That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong."
"And each year now we know more, but we know no better — what we see in the sky is simply the softened gloss of the past sifting back to us, and likewise, every atom down the body’s shining length was inside a star, and will be again."
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Source: Christopher Buckley (1993). “Dark Matter: Poems”, Copper Beech Press
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