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The Monkey in the Mirror
Ian Tattersall
"for scientific knowledge... is inherently provisional."
"All any honest scientist is really trying to do is approximate the truth, in the realization that the ultimate truth is unknowable through scientific means, and that the knowledge he or she generates is invariably susceptible to modifcation."
p. 5.
"In America today,... there is a widespread mistrust of science that is largely born of a lack of understanding of what science actually is."
"and there is no particular method that will give you the key to all the types of scientific inquiry."
p. 3.
"but it's an unavoidable fact that the solution of one scientific problem regularly leads to the identification of others that are probably equally tricky if not more so."
p. 7.
"For this system of provisional knowledge to work, however, its necessary that, to the extent possible, scientific hypotheses be proposed in such a way that they are at least potentially falsifiable --provable to be wrong."
p. 5.
"but a scientic statement has to be subject to disproof if it's wrong or lacking something."
p. 10.
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