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Every scientist must make two assumptions which are quite unproveable, even in theory. The first is that the universe is orderly and the second is that man’s brain is capable of unravelling the mysteries of that order. No scientist I know ever thinks about these assumptions, still less worries about them. They in no significant sense influence practical scientific activity. Nevertheless, they are made and they are worth examining briefly because the conclusions of science cannot be more reliable than the fundamental assumptions on which science is based.
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Horrobin, D.F. (1969). The Assumptions of Science. In: Science is God. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6106-0_2
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