The organization of any complex arrangement hinges on the interplay of seemingly haphazard individual events.

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Apples will rise and physics will fall

"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." Stephen Jay Gould

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