Science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programmed to collect pure information.
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In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
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Birth: | 10th September, 1941 |
Death: | 20th May, 2002 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Biologist, Historian, Paleontologist |
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