Your distinction is not useful for someone who needs help understanding what qualifies as "fact as we know it". It could easily be misconstrued as a counter ex

Your distinction is not useful for someone who needs help understanding what qualifies as "fact as we know it". It could easily be misconstrued as a counter example to the quote in the article, which it is only in the strictest, most pedantic sense. In any reasonable interpretation, Newtonian Physics is still true.