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[...] The statement "Botticelli's Birth of Venus is stunning", for starters, is an unfalsifiable hypothesis, because there is no experiment that might show this statement to be false. Parallax method and equations conventionally determined that the average distance between the Earth and the Moon is 384 400 Km (238 855 miles). Now, if we were to conduct hands-on investigation for its validation or an audit to demonstrate its falsification, direct testing of such a distance measure would require a
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― Philosophy Trips: A Naive's Guide
― Philosophy Trips: A Naive's Guide
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The appearance of fine-tuning in a scientific theory is like a cry of distress from nature, complaining that something needs to be better explained.
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― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
