Quote of Karl Popper - A theory which is not refutable...
Biography - Karl Popper:
Austrian and British philosopher and professor.
Born: 1902 - Died: 1994
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Austria
Born: 1902 - Died: 1994
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Austria
A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes for: theory
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Quotes about science:
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
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