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No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may…

— Karl Popper

no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.

— Karl Popper

“Taleb likes to invoke Popper: 'No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“The scientific method asserts that one cannot prove a hypothesis, only disprove it. Seeing more white swans may strengthen the hypothesis, but seeing a…

— Rich Jolly

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Swans in the winter air A white perfection have

— W. H. Auden

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough…

— William James

“In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.”

— William James

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“...the young swans as big as their parents now, but still grey and it looks peculiar, like two different species swimming in a line,…

— Per Petterson

And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow.…

— Jostein Gaarder

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

— Laozi