Thomas Huxley, Darwin’s ally in the fight to get evolution accepted, spoke warmly of the facility with which ugly facts can kill beautiful theories.

Darwin的同伴Thomas Huxley一直在积极争取进化论的广为接受，并且为那些即使是丑陋的现实能够扼杀美好的理论做激情澎湃的演讲。

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Science is value free in the sense that scientific hypotheses have to be accepted or rejected on the basis of facts and not on the basis of their consistency with any ethical or religious belief.

科学家能不能认同一项科学假设取决于客观事实，而不取决这项假设是否与某种道德观念或宗教信仰相一致。从这种意义上来说，科学本身并不涉及价值判断。

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The deal was: if we accepted your manuscript, you gave us permission to change anything but the facts.

改写协议是这样的：如果我们采纳了你的稿子，你允许我们任意修改但绝对不能篡改事实。

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But last week's was an object lesson in how in subsequent discussions of things that aren't true, or are half true, are accepted as facts.

WSJ: Fiction of the EU Summit's Accepted 'Facts'

LONDON, England (CNN) -- The reality of climate change, and mankind's causal role in the process, are facts that are now almost universally accepted.

CNN: Six degrees of devastation

But the Court explained in Twombly that the Conley statement had never been accepted literally in subsequent court decisions, and that the actual result reached in Conley (that the plaintiff had alleged sufficient facts to survive a Rule 8 motion to dismiss) continues to be fully accepted.

FORBES: Is It Too Much To Ask That a Lawsuit Be ��Plausible��?