The Best Available Answer

© Robert E. Gentet 2015

The noted academic author Arthur Newell Strahler (1918-2002) said the following:

"If we glibly say that 'science is made up of facts' and 'science contains the truth,' we have already trapped ourselves in an untenable position, for we have also said implicitly that scientific knowledge, once put in place, cannot be discarded or replaced...That is why, I suggest the words 'fact' and 'truth' belong to formal science - logic and mathematics - but not to empirical science, which starts with observation of nature and, therefore, does not have an unmodifiable premise." (Science and Earth History, p. 8)