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Quotes from Assumption and Myth in Physical Theory — Hermann Bondi

1919–2005 Austria

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The kind of lecture which I have been so kindly invited to give, and which now appears in book form, gives one a rare opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.

Assumption and Myth in Physical Theory (1967)

All science is full of statements where you put the best face on your ignorance, where you say: true enough, we know awfully little about this, but more or less irrespective of the stuff we don't know about, we can make certain useful deductions.

Assumption and Myth in Physical Theory (1967)

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