Working outside the next barrel

Funny How Fiction Becomes Science

Isaac Newton was, in my world outside the barrel, was first to open the door saying hello to artificial science, as I think of it, intelligently. 

He wasn't the first to write about it, science fiction writers of course were. And they were sometimes mocked as late as the fifties, nineteen fifties, about dark holes. Only now the new wrinkle, it is said, they can photograph them.