"It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found that the mathematics [...] required [...] had already been worked out by pure mathematicians for their own amusement [...] The moral for statesmen would seem to be that, for proper scientific 'planning' , pure mathematics should be endowed fifty years ahead of scientists." (Richard B Braithwaite, "Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science", 1953)
"[...] no batch of observations, however large, either definitively rejects or definitively fails to reject the hypothesis H0." (Richard B Braithwaite, "Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science", 1953)
"The peaks of science may appear to be floating in the clouds, but their foundations are in the hard facts of experience." (Richard B Braithwaite, "Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science", 1953)
"The peculiarity of [...] statistical hypotheses is that they are not conclusively refutable by any experience." (Richard B Braithwaite, "Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science", 1953)
"The ultimate justification for any scientific belief will depend upon the main purpose for which we think scientifically - that of predicting and thereby controlling the future." (Richard B Braithwaite, "Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science", 1953)
"The world is not made up of empirical facts with the addition of the laws of nature: what we call the laws of nature are conceptual devices by which we organize our empirical knowledge and predict the future." (Richard B Braithwaite, "Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science", 1953)
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