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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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It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.
— M. Scott Peck
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Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated…
— John Fowles
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I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that…
— David Suzuki
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I understand signifiers. We're social creatures and we have a physical language of communicating with each other. But it would be a…
— Casey Legler
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I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.
— Richard Paul Evans
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We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch,…
— Karl Popper
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Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause…
— Clay Shirky
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We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity.…
— David Suzuki
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Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow…
— James Mercer
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Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things…
— Leonard Susskind
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Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in…
— Atul Gawande
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