Certain Quote by Karl Popper

“With the idol of certainty (including that of degrees of imperfect certainty or probability) there falls one of the defences of obscurantism which bar…

— Karl Popper

“Science is far from the objective and impartial search for incontrovertible truths that nonscientists might imagine. It is, in fact, a social endeavor where…

— Svante Pääbo

“In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge,…

— Michel Foucault

“Observation and experience can and must drastically restrict the range of admissible scientific belief, else there would be no science. But they cannot alone…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“As soon as one stops searching for knowledge, or if one imagines that it need not be creatively sought in the depths of the…

— Wilhelm Von Humboldt

To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, aboutwhat is…

— Bas van Fraassen

“For me there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion, for both are…

— Henry B. Eyring

Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly…

— Michael Shermer

I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,'…

— Karl Popper

“Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.”

— Albert Einstein

“Science is thus a paradigm for how we ought to gain knowledge—not the particular methods or institutions of science but its value system, namely…

— Steven Pinker

To develop an empiricist account of science is to depictit as involving a search for truth only about the empiricalworld, about what is actual…

— Bas Van Fraassen