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Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of…
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I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body…
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It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that…
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The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.…
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Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
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It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical…
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The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural…
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Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is…
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The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but…
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Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention…
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In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that…
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It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they…
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It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of…
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In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of…
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.
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Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by…
— Karl Popper
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Because love is dangerous, insecure.... And nobody knows where love will lead. It is just like a cloud - moving with no…
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Every Hindu knows that astrologers try to fix the caste of every boy or girl as soon as he or she is…
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I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the…
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Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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