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THE history of the physical sciences offers many examples of theories which have been ‘proved’ mathematically and been set as foundation-stones in the edifice of science, only long after and when a superstructure has been reared upon them to be abandoned as untenable. The operation of taking out a ‘foundation stone of science’ presents all the difficulties which are encountered in extracting its physical parallel.
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HOBBS, W. Mathematical Proof versus Observation. Nature 118, 915 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118915a0
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