All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is a delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.


Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History, Part Three, Chapter 12 (p. 156), Random House, Inc. 1995


All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is a delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is a delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is a delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is a delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.