Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Natural selection has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. But it has left us with the marvel… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme... — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Appealing to his [Einstein's] way of expressing himself in theological terms, I said: If God had wanted to put everything into the… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“As indicated by our example, methodological nominalism is nowadays fairly generally accepted in the natural sciences. The problems of the social sciences, on the… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
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