"Now this principle of induction cannot be a……" — Karl Popper
"Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . ."
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119 Quotes by Karl Popper
Karl Popper has 119 quotes on this site.
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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 Analytic Quotes
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with…
— Agnes Repplier
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[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to…
— Abraham Maslow
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The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And…
— A.J. Ayer
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel…
— Wilfred Bion
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This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In…
— Stephen Shore
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Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our…
— Sigmund Freud
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We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.
— Unknown Author
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"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer…
— Stephen Shore
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We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort
— John Ashcroft
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...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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