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The Strangest Man
Graham Farmalo 2009, Paul Dirac biography
- P39, Charlie C.D. Broad, Dirac teacher, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol
- "A philosopher who regards ignorance of a scientific theory as insufficient reason for not writing about it cannot be accused of a complete lack of originality"
- re. relativity: "popular expositions of the Theory are either definitely wrong, or so loosely expressed as to be dangerously misleading; and all pamplets against it - even when issued by eminent Oxford tutors - are based on elementary misunderstandings"
- - Broad, 1923 Scientific Thought reprinted 1993