"I claim that the success of current scientific theories is no miracle. It is not even surprising to the scientific mind. For any scientific theory is born into a life of fierce competition, a jungle red in tooth and claw. Only the successful theories survive—the ones which in fact latched onto the actual regularities in nature."
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