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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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Only people who want to be somewhere, somebody, have to suffer the sadness of failure. But a person who never wants to…
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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must…
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I heard those words that every woman fears and never wants to hear, You have breast cancer,
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The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince;…
— Karl Popper
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Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
— William John Wills
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The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I…
— Isak Dinesen
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I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never…
— Bianca Jagger
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The ambition of the spiritual traveller never wants to stop with what it has been shown save that the voices of reality…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
— Bill Gates
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
— Henrik Ibsen
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The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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So why don't you tell him you're sorry?" Gaby suggested. "Uh... because he probably never wants to speak to me again?" "How…
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