"The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is……" — Karl Popper
"The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it."
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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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Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored…
— Albert Claude
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Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade…
— George Wald
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Life began on this planet when the first amoeba split. Mankind will still be seeking God, not accepting that God…
— Phyllis Diller
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One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that…
— Robert Bly
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Amoeba has her picture in the book, Proud Protozoon!-Yet beware of pride, All she can do is fatten and divide;…
— Julian Huxley
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We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.
— Bonnie Raitt
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A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether…
— Bertrand Russell
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An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he…
— Yukio Mishima
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The Amoeba?" she asked Aiden. "The gang," he said, tossing his hand to indicate all around. "My people. A large…
— Annette Curtis Klause
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Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.
— Stephen King
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You know the theory of cell irritability?. If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it…
— Bill Murray
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Man in his madness doesn't realize that God has made him from amoeba to this stage for some purpose. There…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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