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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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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to…
— Albert Einstein
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I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge…
— Max Born
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I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on…
— Albert Einstein
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a…
— Georges Canguilhem
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The poetic image exists apart from causality.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left…
— Branch Rickey
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Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like…
— Bertrand Russell
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We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits,…
— Stanislav Grof
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Knowing Chris Bennett's Writing as I do, I expected Only Superhuman to have an imaginative plot and a compelling superheroine in Emry…
— Mike W. Barr
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So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet…
— Luc Ferrari
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