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Hyman Levy
(28 Feb 1889 - 27 Feb 1975)
Scottish philosopher, mathematician and political activist whose books include The Universe of Science (1932) and A Philosophy for a Modern Man (1938). In 1939, he proposed that there must exist some type of second law of evolution, to explain “aggregated energy” forms, somewhat parallel to the second law of thermodynamics.
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Science Quotes by Hyman Levy (1 quote)
Truth is a dangerous word to incorporate within the vocabulary of science. It drags with it, in its train, ideas of permanence and immutability that are foreign to the spirit of a study that is essentially an historically changing movement, and that relies so much on practical examination within restricted circumstances. … Truth is an absolute notion that science, which is not concerned with any such permanency, had better leave alone.
— Hyman Levy
In The Universe of Science (1933).
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
