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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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Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the…
— Herbert Hoover
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I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than…
— Lord Byron
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That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he…
— Henry David Thoreau
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If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now.
— Gerald Sinstadt
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Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.
— David Stockman
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The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods…
— Karl Popper
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Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion…
— Herbert Hoover
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A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan.
— Coolio
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.
— Billy Joel
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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
— Rebecca West
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What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. But I just…
— Rick Riordan
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Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?" "Didn't they start the Trojan…
— Rick Riordan
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