“Nowadays, however, we are much more aware of the fact that the best proof in the world is worth no more than its premises: every scientific theory is transitory and provisional, in wait for a better one, and accepted only as long as the experimental results conform to its predictions.”

—  Ivar Ekeland

Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 3, The Least Action Principle, p. 48.

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