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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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If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500…
— Fritjof Capra
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On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to…
— Jean Dieudonne
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The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.
— Cornell Capa
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It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it…
— Raymond Chandler
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The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether…
— Louis Althusser
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Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.
— Sergei Prokofiev
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Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form…
— Max Bill
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We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self.…
— Kenny Smith
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Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.
— Robert Heilbroner
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But it is certainly not possible to insist on one hand that the formalism is complete and to insist on the other…
— Karl Popper
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Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism.…
— George Edward Woodberry
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