I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished…

“The widespread success of science is too significant an issue to be treated as if it were a happy accident that we are free…

— John Polkinghorne

“The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects definable in…

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by any unfavorable…

— Karl Popper

Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely…

— Samuel R. Delany

To call the coronavirus a great equaliser turned out to be the greatest falsification of our time.

— Barkha Dutt

“You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard.…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is…

— Norman Finkelstein

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am…

— Anonymous

On a nationwide basis, I would guess that the various churches would have to pay annually an amount at least equal to the national…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Do we ignore the needy to spite the greedy? Or share and defend despite those who pretend?”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal…

— John Barth

Younger people who are being indoctrinated into the contemporary system of falsification - they really have to do some research to find out what…

— Noam Chomsky

“Once the process of falsification is set in motion, it won't stop. We're in a country where everything that can be falsified has been…

— Italo Calvino

“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ...…

— Dorothy L. Sayers