“Many kinds of processes are at work in the world around us, and they are all superimposed on, and interact with, each other in complicated ways.”

— Alan Chalmers, book What Is This Thing Called Science?

Source: What Is This Thing Called Science? (Third Edition; 1999), Chapter 3, Experiment, p. 28.

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Australian philosopher of science 1939

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