Falsifiability Karl Quotes & Sayings

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself. — Walter Scott

The discovery of instances which confirm a theory means very little if we have not tried, and failed, to discover refutations. For if we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmation, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favour of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted. — Karl Popper

To see the miracle you must be the miracle. — Jennifer Ho-Dougatz

People face death while they're still alive, — Haruki Murakami

When a world goes to pieces, when inhumanity reigns supreme, man cannot go on with business as usual. — Bruno Bettelheim

As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well. — Kate Jackson

Anna told me I would understand about boys one day.
She said that everything would change and I would look at them differently, assess their bodies and their words, the way their eyes moved when they talked to me. She said I'd not only want to answer them but that I'd learn how, knowing which words to use, how to give meaning to a pause.
Then a man took her.
A man took her before I learned any of these things. He took her and kept her for a while, put things inside of her. Of course the obvious thing, but also some others, like he was curious if they'd fit. Then he got bored. Then he got creative.
Then my sister was gone and I thought: I understand about boys now.
And she was right. Everything did change. I look at them differently and I assess their bodies and watch their eyes and weigh their words.
But not in the way she meant. — Mindy McGinnis

I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am. — Randy Newman

Want vs. What's Coming to You
As the Rolling Stones say,
You can't always get what you want ~
but God will always give you what's coming to you. — Beryl Dov

A little tap on the window pane, as though something had struck it, followed by a plentiful light falling sound, as of grains of sand being sprinkled from a window overhead, gradually spreading, intensifying, acquiring a regular rhythm, becoming fluid, sonorous, musical, immeasurable, universal: it was the rain. — Marcel Proust

A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but the falsifiability of a system is to be taken as a criterion of demarcation ... It must be possible for an empirical or scientific system to be refuted by experience. — Karl Popper