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“Nothing is more conservative than a bacterium.”
― Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
― Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
“A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world. For the falsificationist, If follows fairly readily from this that the more falsifiable a theory is the better, in some loose sense of more. The more a theory claims, the more potential opportunities there will be for showing that the world does not in fact behave in the way laid down by the theory. A very good theory will be one that makes very wide-ranging claims about the world, and which is consequently highly falsifiable, and is one that resists falsification whenever it is put to the test.”
― What Is This Thing Called Science?
― What Is This Thing Called Science?
“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“One attempt to avoid the problem of induction involves weakening the demand that scientific knowledge be proven true, and resting content with the claim that scientific claims can be shown to be probably true in the light of the evidence. So the vast number of observations that can be invoked to support the claim that materials denser than air fall diWInwards on earth, although it does not permit us to prove the truth of the claim, does warrant the assertion that the claim is probably true.”
― What Is This Thing Called Science?
― What Is This Thing Called Science?
“In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.”
― Darwin's Notebook: The Life, Times, and Discoveries of Charles Robert Darwin
― Darwin's Notebook: The Life, Times, and Discoveries of Charles Robert Darwin
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