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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
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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
Pierre Maurice Duhem
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