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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.

R. B. Braithwaite

The peaks of science may appear to be floating in the clouds, but their foundations are in the hard facts of experience.

R. B. Braithwaite

R. B. Braithwaite

R. B. Braithwaite

Born: January 15, 1900

Died: April 21, 1990 (aged 90)

Bio: Richard Bevan Braithwaite usually cited as R. B. Braithwaite, was an English philosopher who specialized in the philosophy of science, ethics, and the philosophy of religion.

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Scientific explanation (1953)

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