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Quotes from The Scientific Image — Bas van Fraassen

born 1941 Netherlands

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I claim that the success of current scientific theories is no miracle. It is not even surprising to the scientific (Darwinist) mind. For any scientific theory is born into a life of fierce competition, a jungle red in tooth and claw. Only the successful theories survive—the ones which in fact latched onto the actual regularities in nature.

The Scientific Image (1980)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bas van Fraassen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.