Bas van Fraassen Quote

The success of current scientific theories is no miracle. It is not even surprising to the scientific (Darwinist) mind. For any scientific theory is born into a life of fierce competition, a jungle red in tooth and claw. Only the successful theories survive — the ones which in fact latched on to the actual regularities in nature.

The Scientific Image, Chapter 2, Section 7 (p. 40), Clarendon Press. 1980