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Truth is a dangerous word to incorporate within the vocabulary of science. It drags with it, in its train, ideas of permanence and immutability that are foreign to the spirit of a study that is essentially an historically changing movement, and that relies so much on practical examination within restricted circumstances..

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Truth is an absolute notion that science, which is not concerned with any such permanency, had better leave alone.

Hyman Levy

Hyman Levy

Hyman Levy

Born: 1889

Died: 1975 (aged 86)

Bio: Prof Hyman Levy FRSE was a Scottish philosopher, Emeritus Professor of Imperial College London, mathematician, political activist and fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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