Top 3 Pierre Duhem Quotes

#1. The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

Pierre Duhem

#2. If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

Pierre Duhem

#3. The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

Pierre Duhem

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