Accounts Quote by Karl Popper

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our…

— Michael Polanyi

Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that have the…

— Julius Evola

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever…

— Albert Einstein

My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by…

— Karl Popper

When you look at traditions closely, examine what they really are, you realize they're made up of layers and layers of deferrals, delays, indecisions,…

— A. A. Gill

It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization…

— Ernest Nagel

“When tradition thus becomes master, it does so in such a way that what it transmits is made so inaccessible, proximally and for the…

— Martin Heidegger

“The trajectory of this tradition, from positivism to the current variety of postpositivist philosophies of science, has reflected the pressure of a complex reality…

— Helena Sheehan

Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in…

— James D. Watson

Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us…

— Carl Sagan

Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science…

— Talcott Parsons

It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their…

— John Dewey