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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. But science is…
- In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that the experimental results…
- It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result…
- It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this…
- Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it…
- I think that there is only one way to science - or to philosophy, for that matter: to meet a problem, to see its beauty…
- Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible harm for thousands…
- It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.
- We do not know. We can only guess.
- It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some difficulties, and to…
- Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
- Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the…
- There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the…
- For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which…
- Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature, and…
- We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of…
- We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
- There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.
- There is no history, only histories.
- Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for…
- Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.
- Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as…
- We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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