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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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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what…
— Albert Camus
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In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and…
— Karl Popper
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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually…
— Conrad Black
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America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
— Sidney Lumet
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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the…
— Georges Bataille
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You who look at everything through your perpetually open eyes, is your lucidity never bathed in tears?
— Michel Serres
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I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring…
— Igor Stravinsky
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Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear…
— David Lloyd George
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A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his…
— Blake Bailey
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