Science Quote by Karl R. Popper Download Open image ““The way of science is paved with discarded theories which were once declared self-evident;”” — Karl R. Popper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Science
“Real science is recognizing an outcome, not always about reinforcing your theory.” — Jeffrey Fry Copy Share Image
“…once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“Theory in any branch of science entails a risk of detachment from reality” — Quammen, David Copy Share Image
“The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.” — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Without clues, we search in the wrong directions. Without evidence, a theory is not reliable.” — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to do science in the absence of a pre-existing theory. (p.125)” — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“If theory means a reasonably systematic reflection of our guiding assumptions, it remains as indispensable as ever.” — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“It is a scientifically proven fact that all scientifically proven facts have originated from original and thereby unproven theories.” — Silvia Hartmann Copy Share Image
“If existance of something cannot be proved scientifically, it only means that science is not equipped to prove it right now.” — Sukant Ratnakar Copy Share Image
“Most of us, it seems, have a strong inclination to accept the peculiarities of our social environment as if they were ‘natural’.” — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“The empirical basis of objective science has thus nothing ‘absolute’ about it.4 Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Should you ever intend to dull the wits of a young man and to incapacitate his brains for any kind of thought whatever, then… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Historically, all ethics undoubtedly begin with religion; but I do not now deal with historical questions. I do not ask who was the first… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Society and the individual are thus interdependent. The one owes its existence to the other. Society owes its existence to human nature, and especially… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“All political ideals, that of making the people happy is perhaps the most dangerous one. It leads invariably to the attempt to impose our… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“There is only one further use of violence in political quarrels which I should consider justified. I mean the resistance, once democracy has been… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“The fascist appeal to ‘human nature’ is to our passions, to our collectivist mystical needs, to ‘man the unknown’. Adopting Hegel’s words just quoted,… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all; and further,… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“According to this conception, the ultimate causes of all social changes and political revolutions are not increasing insight into justice; they are to be… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“(a) Nationalism, in the form of the historicist idea that the state is the incarnation of the Spirit (or now, of the Blood) of… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
“Galton’s gospel of eugenics found fertile soil in Britain, in the intellectual salons of Europe, and in the United States. Beginning in the early… — Joseph Loconte Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
“Love. Such a sweet, simple word. A word I've been searching for my entire life - but especially since I met Eio - and… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image