Turtles all the way down’. Do you know or use this expression?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes I know it. 41, male. If I didn't know it before I'd know of from the Sturgil Simpson song "Turtles All the Way Down," but I don't remember when I actually learned it.

Love is the only thing that ever saved my life.

[Anonymous]

Yes, and coincidentally one of my coworkers quoted this during lunch last week and we all got it. So there are many of us that know this expression. Age range: 40-60s; male and female group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fascinated by this question. I love this phrase. You can use it to reference something particularly deep/intricate/confusing or even a conspiracy theory of sorts.

When I was a kid, I heard the (probably apocryphal) story about someone confidently telling a scientist that the universe is actually built on the back of a turtle, and underneath that, another turtle, and another, and so on. I’m 35 FWIW.

Stephen Hawking is who shared this story in “A Brief History of Time.”

Other versions are “rocks all the way down” or “tigers all the way down.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:55, Male. Computer programmer. I've known the expression for at least 20 years or more. It, or variations, are common used by programmers when talking about infinite regression, like another poster said.

Re: siblings. I remember when my older son (maybe 5 at the time) told us we should have another son so his younger brother could too have the experience of having a younger brother. We told him no -- that it would be little brothers all the way down.

This, only I'm a 41 year old female programmer. I've also heard it in philosophical and theological contexts.

[Anonymous]

Never heard it before, F, 58

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If yes, explain and what is your age and gender identity?

It's a lower class saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If yes, explain and what is your age and gender identity?

It's a lower class saying.

Yeah. Stephen Hawking and Supreme Court justices are so low class.

[Anonymous]

Isn't it the name of a John Green book? Millennial, no "gender identity."

[Anonymous]

Yes. Female, 50

[Anonymous]

Yes, use it frequently, female, 43

[Anonymous]

Yep 46, Indian origin.


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