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David Quammen
(1948 - )
writer whose science, nature and travel articles have been published in magazines like National Geographic and Outside. For the latter, for fifteen years he contibuted the column, Natural Acts.
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Science Quotes by David Quammen (1)
[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what scientists mean when they talk about a theory: not a dreamy and unreliable speculation, but an explanatory statement that fits the evidence. They embrace such an explanation confidently but provisionally - taking it as their best available view of reality, at least unil some severely conflicting data or some better explanation might come along."
— David Quammen
'Was Darwin Wrong?'. National Geographic (Nov 2004), 206, 4.
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