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Scientific Quotes by Karl Popper
- The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes…
- 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…
- The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes…
- I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme...
- The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and…
- No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct...
- A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but…
- A system such as classical mechanics may be 'scientific' to any degree you like; but those who uphold it dogmatically - believing, perhaps, that it…
- It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect…
- In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does…
- We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in…
- The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not assert that they…
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