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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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A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more…
— E F Schumacher
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from…
— Barbara Walters
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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…
— Karl Popper
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I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear…
— Jean Larteguy
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Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.
— James Gates Percival
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...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner…
— G. E. M. Anscombe
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Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your…
— Thomas S. Monson
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In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown.…
— Paul von Hindenburg
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We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles,…
— Bob Brown
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When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half…
— Louise Brooks
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The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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History does not unfold: it piles up.
— Robert Adams
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