Events Quote by Karl Popper

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…

— Karl Popper

A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.

— Richard Dawkins

If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.

— Jerry A. Coyne

No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct...

— Karl Popper

A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you…

— Hermann Bondi

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a…

— Abraham Maslow

Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is…

— Brian Greene

A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific…

— Maurice Allais

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

— Manfred Eigen

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.

— Jean Baudrillard

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]…

— Robert Shapiro