Sentences with phrase «by an ugly fact»
Possibly the death of a beautiful theory, once again slain by the ugly fact.
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The scrappy 19th - century champion of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection once spoke of «the great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact».
Of course, this is just another beautiful theory that will be assaulted by some ugly facts, in this case the TV deal CIF has struck with Comcast.
But, as with Mercury's orbit, there have also been rare occasions when a beautiful (and well - supported) theory was slain by an ugly fact.
«The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.»
A case of a beautiful theory (Lindzen's) shot down by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is the hypothesis being slain by an ugly fact.
Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is the hypothesis being slain by an ugly fact.
Everything they do suffers from the T. H. Huxley truth; «The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.»
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