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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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Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of…
— Karl Popper
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It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach…
— Niels Kaj Jerne
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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
— Arnold Bennett
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You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.
— Paul Claudel
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Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become…
— Dennis Prager
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Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
— Francis Parker Yockey
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I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least…
— Konrad Lorenz
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor.…
— Terry Eagleton
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There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a…
— Kamila Shamsie
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Nothing important is completely explicable.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you…
— Gregory Maguire
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