| Quickdraw McGraw said: The 99.9999% and 90% figures are misleading. This is the underlying point: There are no facts in science. A theory is a hypothesis (Or group of related hypotheses) that has been continually tested and re-tested to the point where no experimental, logical, or observational evidence have been shown to refute, or 'falsify', that hypothesis. Science doesn't exist to form awesome (!!) theories for fun. The 99.9999% "truth" figure is misleading, and the word "theory" in scientific connotation should, naturally, carry a significant weight. |
You have "fact" and "law" confused.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
