Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
From Karl Popper
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
3 perspectives
2 perspectives
1 perspectives