Fakir is a term of Arabic origin that can be translated as “poor” and originally referred to a Muslim holy man, a Sufi saint, although since the Mughal Era it has also been applied to Hindu sadhus or ascetics, generally destitute wanderers who mortify their bodies as an act of penance in order to renounce […]
In Nolan's supposal, the mad scientist takes on the mystique of a wizard. Perhaps this is fitting, given that he sees science and wizardry as the same thing.
The nature of the surveys to which Phil Halper appeals is that they measure what physicists believe. They cannot measure what the evidence actually supports.
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