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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 appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis,…
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There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of…
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The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A…
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The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting…
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Despite all the advancements in science, and all things about religion that are disproved it still marches on. The bottom line is…
— Joe Rogan
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I believe in everything until it's disproved.
— John Lennon
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In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the…
— Bertrand Russell
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When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way.…
— George Wald
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Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does…
— Roger Scruton
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Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been…
— John W. Gardner
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There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic,…
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