Quote by Theodore Dalrymple

If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from,…

— Karl Popper

“The discovery of instances which confirm a theory means very little if we have not tried, and failed, to discover refutations. For if we…

— Karl Popper

“The advance of knowledge deludes us into thinking we are different from other animals, but our history shows that we are not.”

— John N. Gray

“Clues put us on the right path toward a correct theory. Strong evidence is that which subsequently allows us to trust whether the theory…

— Carlo Rovelli

“To think, analyze and invent are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Without clues, we search in the wrong directions. Without evidence, a theory is not reliable.”

— Carlo Rovelli

“I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as…

— John Muir

“and I think (like you, by the way) that theory cannot be fabricated out of the results of observation, but that it can only…

— Albert Einstein

“When, indeed, is a thing proven? Only when an individual has accumulated in his own consciousness enough observations, impressions, reasonings and feelings to satisfy…

— Hugh Nibley

“It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.”

— John Reader