Karl Popper Quotes

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

People are saying I don't need science, I have everything, but everything is based on science.

The creationists repeatedly assert that evolution is a theory, and, indeed, not a scientific theory at all because it is unable to predict future developments. Both statements are untrue. Evolution [phenomenon] is a fact, not theory. It once was a theory but today, as a consequence of observation and testing it is probably the best authenticated actu- ality known to science. There are theories concerning the mechanisms of evolution but no competent student doubts the reality of evolution

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable