1 If you wish to strive for peace of soul, then believe; if you wish to
2 be a devotee of truth, then inquire.
5 The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one
6 day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and
7 that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.
8 -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §11
10 [A] theory is falsifiable [(and therefore scientific) only] if the
11 class of its potential falsifiers is not empty.
12 -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §21
14 I shall require that [a scientific system's] logical form shall be
15 such that it can be singled out, by means of empirical tests, in a
16 negative sense: it must be possible for an empirical scientific system
17 to be refuted by experience.
18 -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6
20 He wore trifocals. There was stratigraphy even in his glasses.
21 -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p364
23 "Old hypotheses never really die, they're like dormant volcanoes."
24 -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p313
26 "While geologists argue, the rocks just sit there and sometimes they
28 -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p304
30 [T]he question of whether Machines Can Think, [...] is about as
31 relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.
32 -- Edsger W. Dijkstra "The threats to computing science"