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The principle that a theory is scientific only if it can, in principle, be proven false by observation or experiment.
It is the supreme challenge, and a brutal one, but every scientific theory must be testable and compatible with reality. The nineteenth-century naturalist Thomas Huxley stated it thus: ‘The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis...
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If wishes were trees, the trees would be falling. Listen to reason, reason is calling.