Sentences with phrase «slain by an ugly fact»
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.
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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.
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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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