"It must be possible for an empirical system……" — Karl Popper
"It must be possible for an empirical system to be refuted by experience."
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119 Quotes by Karl Popper
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Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a…
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I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as…
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It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of…
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The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and…
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Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
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It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and…
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The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is,…
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Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp.…
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The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its…
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Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with…
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In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to…
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It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only…
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More Empirical Quotes
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only,…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes.…
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything…
— Nikola Tesla
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But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical…
— Marvin Minsky
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Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state…
— Steven Weinberg
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In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to…
— Karl Popper
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But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their…
— Justus von Liebig
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My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained…
— Gregor Mendel
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True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.
— Franz Cumont
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Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely…
— Hannes Alfven
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