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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…
• I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body…
• It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that…
• The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.…
• Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
• It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical…
• The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural…
• 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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