Disconfirmation Quotes & Sayings

My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors. — Eleanor Catton

Both Erica and Liza Wind were morbidly concerned with heredity, and instead of delighting in Victor's artistic genius, they used to worry gloomily about its genetic cause. — Vladimir Nabokov

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate. — Chinua Achebe

Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination. — Alister E. McGrath

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time. — Aulus Gellius

Molding the Minds of the Future — Robert E.O. Crewe

Do not quarrel ... with your lot in life. Do not complain of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment, the vexations you have to stand, the small and sordid souls you have to live and work with. — William Henry Drummond

Certainly in order to understand the natural world one needs clarity, logic, and the capacity for theory building. But that understanding tends to improve because and to the extent that it is provisional, hypothetical, when it looks for disconfirmation in the particular rather than final proof as a universal. — Talal Asad

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. — Auberon Herbert

Get out of your comfort zone. Wake up the sleeping giant in you. — Chia Thye Poh

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors. — Sonny Chiba

Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing. — Errol Morris

Psychologists have done tests about how humans approach problem solving and found that we are somehow preprogrammed to look for confirmation and not for disconfirmation. — Steven Drobny

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something. — Shelley Berkley

The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get. — Joe Perry

This is where Wulf's people would get drunk and party for a week. All hail the Vikings, forerunners to the frat boys! (Chris) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be. — Chuck Palahniuk