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It is true that we must not accept a theory on the basis of emotional preference but it is not an emotional preference to attempt to establish a theory that would place us in a position to obtain a complete understanding of the Universe. The stakes are high, and win or lose, are worth playing for.

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The fewer the facts, the more numerous the theories.

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To say of the traditional African thinker that he is interested in supernatural rather than natural causes makes little more sense... than to say of the physicist that he is interested in nuclear rather than natural causes. In fact, both are making the same use of theory to transcend the limited vision of natural causes provided by common sense.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Robin W. G. Horton

Robin W. G. Horton

Born: 1932
Died: 2019 (aged 87)
Bio: Robin Horton was English social anthropologist and philosopher who carried out specialized study in comparative religion since the 1950s which has challenged and expanded views in the study of the anthropology of religion.

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