Citations:celestial teapot

English citations of celestial teapot

Russell's teapot edit

2006 September 18, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL:
Yet strictly we should all be teapot agnostics: we cannot prove, for sure, that there is no celestial teapot.
2007 May 16, Anthony M. Poole with David Penny, “Response to Dagan and Martin”, in BioEssays, volume 29, number 6, →DOI, pages 611–614:
This is indeed possible, but gives rise to what we dub the celestial teapot of phylogenetics: in the absence of phylogenetic data indicating that the host is of archaeal origin, an archaeal origin could still be envisaged, but only if those deep branching archaea crucial for the test have tragically gone extinct […]
2009, Y. I. Fishman, “Can Science Test Supernatural Worldviews?”, in Science & Education, volume 18, numbers 6-7, →DOI, →ISSN:
Even though there is no direct evidence for or against the celestial teapot, background information can still provide a rational basis for evaluating the prior probability that the claim is true.
2009 October 13, Jamie Maslin, Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn: A Hitchhiker's Adventures in the New Iran‎^[1], New York: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN, →OL:
And since you can't prove a negative, the IAEA inspectors are obviously incapable of giving a 100 percent assurance that somehow, somewhere in Iran there isn't the faintest possibility that a nuclear weapons program exists. But this is no more evidence for one existing than to say that because I can't categorically prove Bertrand Russell's famous ironic suggestion that there is a celestial teapot orbiting the earth to be false, then, in fact, there must be one up there doing just that.
2010 September 14, Rebecca Rupp, Octavia Boone's Big Questions about Life, the Universe and Everything, Somerville: Candlewick Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 178:
“There’s another Bertrand Russell story,” I said. “It’s about the Celestial Teapot.”
2011 September 26, John Harris, “Wicked or Dead? Reflections on the Moral Character and Existential Status of God”, in Russell Blackford, Udo Schüklenk, editors, 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, →OL:
[…] in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Adams introduces us to an invention deisgned by a different civilization to cope with problems of belief and worthy of the celestial teapot — the Electric Monk.

the constellation Sagittarius edit

1976, Will Kyselka with Ray E. Lanterman, North Star to Southern Cross, University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, →OL:
The upper part of Sagittarius also looks like a celestial teapot, spilling its contents on the tail of Scorpius as it moves beyond the meridian.
1992, Astronomy Now‎^[2], volume 6, page 29:
Following Scorpius comes the celestial teapot, actually Sagittarius.
1999 July 8, Jeff Kanipe, A Skywatcher's Year, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OL:
Scorpius lies over on its side, with Sagittarius, in the form of the celestial ‘teapot,’ following closely behind.
2012 September 10, Mike Lynch, “Lynch: Monitor night skies as tipping celestial teapot steams”, in Times Record News:
Right around 9 p.m., when enough evening twilight has been chased away, look in the low south-southwest Wichita Falls sky and without too much trouble you'll see a teapot hanging diagonally by its handle. A distinct triangle of three bright stars make up the spout on the lower right side and a trapezoid of four stars on the upper left make up the handle. In between and above the handle and the pot is a single star that marks the top of the teapot. This celestial teapot is formally known as Sagittarius the Archer.