Karl Popper Quotes

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Science is nothing but perception.