" All of our knowledge derived using science stands exposed to the same test of falsifiability: it is stated in such a way that an experiment could prove it false. That none has so far gives us high confidence that a given proposition, like the theory of evolution, is probably true, and we quantify that probability repeatedly using statistics. The more often it has been tested and survived, the more likely it is to be a fully objective truth. But this sort of confidence is not an article of faith—just the opposite. It’s an article of what survives after the rigors of doubt and scrutiny. "

― Shawn Lawrence Otto , The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It