Induction applied to the physical sciences is always uncertain, because it rests on the belief in a general order of the universe, an order outside of us. (Henri Poincaré)

Induction applied to the physical sciences is always uncertain, because it rests on the belief in a general order of the universe, an order outside of us.

Henri Poincaré

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