How Different Departments and Disciplines See a Black Cat
- Science--looking for a black cat in a dark room.
- Psychology--looking for a black cat in a dark room in
which there isn't any cat at all.
- Philosophy--claiming that you've found a black cat in a
dark room in which there isn't any cat at all.
- Mathematics--building a room, turning out the lights and
then filling it with black cats.
- Art--taking a white cat out of a dark room with only a
black cat inside.
- Secular Humanism--closing the door to the dark room,
black cat or not.
- Scientific Creationism--seeing a tan cat in a bright
room, then turning out the lights and claiming there's a
black cat there.
- Physics-- Putting a black cat in a dark room, rotate it,
flip it, drop it, smash it, nuke it, and still claim the
black cat is in there.
- English--Writing about a black cat in a dark room using a
white cat in a bright room as a metaphor.