from Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead (1976): "the history of science is strewn with the ruins..."

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"....The physicist Gerhard Robbins observes that strictly speaking no hypothesis or theory can ever be proven. It can only be disproven. When we say we believe a theory, what we really mean is that we are unable to show that the theory is wrong, not that we are able to show beyond doubt that the theory is right. A scientific theory may stand for years, even centuries, and it may accumulate hundreds of bits of corroborating evidence to support it. If a theory is always vulnerable and a single conflicting finding is all that is required to throw the hypothesis into disarray and call for a new theory, one can never know when such conflicting evidence will arise. Perhaps it will happen tomorrow, perhaps never, but the history of science is strewn with the ruins of mighty edifices toppled by an accident or a triviality...."

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