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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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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
— Albert Camus
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to…
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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden…
— Gautama Buddha
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The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute
— Damian Marley
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Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which…
— Daniel Tammet
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Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
— Han Suyin
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Truth, like love, is never absolute.
— E. Lynn Harris
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Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . .
— Karl Popper
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The truth is impossible to comprehend even when one is willing to tell it. For the truth resides in memory and memory…
— Frank Hardy
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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