Karl Popper Quotes About Observation

Quotes about: Observation

• There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.

  Karl Popper

  Theory, Observation, Pure

  Karl Popper, M.A. Notturno (2014). “The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality”, p.8, Routledge

• 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

• Almost everyone... seems to be quite sure that the differences between the methodologies of history and of the natural sciences are vast. For, we are assured, it is well known that in the natural sciences we start from observation and proceed by induction to theory. And is it not obvious that in history we proceed very differently? Yes, I agree that we proceed very differently. But we do so in the natural sciences as well.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Differences, Well Known

  Karl Popper (2014). “The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality”, p.140, Routledge

• Some scientists find, or so it seems, that they get their best ideas when smoking; others by drinking coffee or whisky. Thus there is no reason why I should not admit that some may get their ideas by observing, or by repeating observations.

  Karl Popper

  Drinking, Coffee, Science

  Karl Popper, W.W. Bartley, III (2013). “Realism and the Aim of Science: From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.36, Routledge

• A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

  Karl Popper

  Religion, Atheism, Theory

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