Certain Quote by Karl Popper

Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood…

— Michael Shermer

Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same…

— Edward Abbey

It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.

— Karl Popper

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

— Philipp Meyer

This country has such little sense of itself sometimes, I'm astonished. America is one of the biggest myth-making countries, whether we're talking about how…

— Junot Diaz

“You call a tree a tree, he said, and you think nothing more of the word. But it was not a 'tree' until someone…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the…

— Anonymous

“But, said Lewis, myths are lies, even though lies breathed through silver. No, said Tolkien, they are not. ...just as speech is invention about…

— Humphrey Carpenter

The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.

— Rene Girard

I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture…

— Daphne Gottlieb

There's something very truthful about American brutality, spirit and myth-making that is so present in the great westerns.

— Fred Hechinger