Determine Quote by Michael Shermer

There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of…

— Jacob Bronowski

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it…

— Karl Popper

“If they had been, explained Falk, they would have had to come up with a falsifiable hypothesis. For instance, if the hypothesis is that…

— Ori Brafman

“Science, however, is never conducted as a popularity contest, but instead advances through testable, reproducible, and falsifiable theories.”

— Michio Kaku

“A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world. For the falsificationist, If follows fairly readily…

— Alan F. Chalmers

“The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is a methodological…

— Karl Popper

“Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it…

— George Will

“Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we…

— Robert T. Pennock

Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is…

— Brian Greene

A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.

— Richard Dawkins

Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).

— Sam Harris