Pierre Duhem Quote

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of Pyrrhonian scepticism.


The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory (1906), 2nd edition (1914), trans. Philip P. Wiener (1954)


The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of Pyrrhonian scepticism.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of Pyrrhonian scepticism.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of Pyrrhonian scepticism.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of Pyrrhonian scepticism.