Karl Popper Quotes About Myth

Quotes about: Myth

• It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Ideas, Growth

• Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

  Karl Popper

  Criticism, Myth

  In C. A. Mace (ed.) 'British Philosophy in the Mid-Century' 'The Philosophy of Science'

• My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being accompanied by a second-order tradition-that of critically discussing the myth. ... In a certain sense, science is myth-making just as religion is.

  Karl Popper

  Order, Criticism, Tradition

• Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but with the critical discussion of myths, and of magical techniques and practices.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Practice, Criticism

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.87, Routledge

• Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

  Karl Popper

  Theory, Myth, Scientific Theory

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.50, Routledge

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