In science "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional consent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.


Evolution as Fact and Theory, Discover, May 1981

Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

In science fact can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional consent. I suppose that apples might start ...

In science fact can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional consent. I suppose that apples might start ...

In science fact can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional consent. I suppose that apples might start ...

In science fact can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional consent. I suppose that apples might start ...