“Science’s results alone justify its usefulness, for it is, hands down, the single best way we’ve devised to understand the universe.”

—  Jerry Coyne , book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 206

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