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Mary Hesse Quotes

1924–2016 England

Mary Brenda Hesse FBA (15 October 1924 – 2 October 2016) was an English philosopher of science, latterly a professor in the subject at the University of Cambridge.

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A theory in its scientific context is not a static museum piece, but is always being extended and modified to account for new phenomena.

It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years , it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which had hampered it , and the attitude to nature.

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