Genuine Quote by Karl Popper Download Open image “Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.” — Karl Popper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attempt Falsify Falsify Falsify Refute Genuine Genuine Test Refute Tests Theory Truth
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena. — William Whewell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Someone who thinks up a new theory is the last person who should be trusted with the job of testing it. A new theory… — Judith Rich Harris Copy Share Image
“The discovery of instances which confirm a theory means very little if we have not tried, and failed, to discover refutations. For if we… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world. For the falsificationist, If follows fairly readily… — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy.… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious. — Assar Lindbeck Copy Share Image
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“As indicated by our example, methodological nominalism is nowadays fairly generally accepted in the natural sciences. The problems of the social sciences, on the… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
When somebody comes across as authentic and genuine and sweet, people just want to spend time with that person. — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“Genuine listening means suspending memory, desire, and judgment — and, for a moment at least, existing for the other person. ” — Michael P Nichols Copy Share Image
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think when you look around this league, so much is scripted. And not scripted in a sense that the league is scripted, but… — Draymond Green Copy Share Image
For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies… — Ehren Kruger Copy Share Image
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
“I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
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