<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414430" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Potsherds</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Collectors of antiquities.<br>Renowned for eccentricities<br> are very often to be found<br> hanging round some battle ground</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dug up by archaelogists.<br> For whom they are apologists, <br> they are ready to accept.<br>Some archaeologists’ concept, </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> his latest greatest theory<br>of what some artefact might be.<br> Although in truth they do not know.<br>They will insist it must be so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Professional experts every one<br> who are convinced that they are right.<br>They make deductions based upon<br> false premises to my delight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They either can’t or won’t admit<br> that their opinions might be wrong.<br>They are convinced and that is it<br>The rest of us should go along. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> With what they say no argument.<br> What can we know which they do not.<br> They’re sometimes right by accident<br>but just as often they are not.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Piltdown man a clever hoax<br> fooled all the experts for decades.<br>Yet still some of these learned folks<br> do not believe mistakes are made.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I often watch with interest<br> the TV documentaries.<br>Which put their ideas to the test<br> and prove they’re only theories.<br>3-Nov-07</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414430" data-title="Potsherds de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="Collectors of antiquities. Renowned for eccentricities are very often to be found hanging round some battle ground Dug up by archaelogists. For whom they are apologists, they are ready to accept. Some archaeologists’ concept, his latest..."></div> </div> </div>

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