Monophyly Requires Verification

Famous quotes containing the words requires and/or verification:

    A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.
    Guy Fawkes (1570–1606)

    Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.
    Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970)