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> The "skeptic" only needs to have one single piece of data turn out to be inaccurate “The great tragedy of Science–the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an
by kbutler 5y ago
> The "skeptic" only needs to have one single piece of data turn out to be inaccurate
“The great tragedy of Science–the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
–British biologist Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895)
This is the scientific method - theories must explain/not contradict any known facts, and must predict unexpected new facts that can be verified by experiment.