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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

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Pierre Duhem
Age: 55 †
Born: 1861
Born: June 10
Died: 1916
Died: September 14
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Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem
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