Reality Quote by Karl Popper

“In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.”

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“As indicated by our example, methodological nominalism is nowadays fairly generally accepted in the natural sciences. The problems of the social sciences, on the…

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Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

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A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but…

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Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And…

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[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task…

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There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot…

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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…

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I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or…

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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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