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Scientific fact   /sˌaɪəntˈɪfɪk fækt/   Listen
Scientific fact

noun
1.
An observation that has been confirmed repeatedly and is accepted as true (although its truth is never final).





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"Scientific fact" Quotes from Famous Books



... when the dynamo was invented, when the high tension current was produced; and electrical therapeutics became a leading theme when transmission by induction became recognized as a scientific fact. ...
— Electricity for Boys • J. S. Zerbe
... plausibility to their truth. If the snake is "egotism," if it is the torture of self in a man, if its cure is the loss of self in love, then making the snake real and physical is absurdity; medicine and morals are confounded; the scientific fact has nothing to do with the artistic meaning and is a concession to the gross senses of the reader. The story illustrates the method, rather than its successful application; for the physical horror is really greater here than the moral ...
— Nathaniel Hawthorne • George E. Woodberry


Words linked to "Scientific fact" :   observation


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