Falsification Quotes

• It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect any statement in science against falsification.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Scientific Method, Way

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.33, Routledge

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• Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by any unfavorable evidence. Moreover, by making their interpretations and prophecies sufficiently vague they were able to explain away anything that might have been a refutation of the theory had the theory and the prophecies been more precise. In order to escape falsification they destroyed the testability of their theory. It is a typical soothsayer's trick to predict things so vaguely that the predictions can hardly fail: that they become irrefutable.

  Karl Popper

  Order, Typical, Might

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• Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

  Erich Fromm

  Reality, Expectations, Needs

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.150, Open Road Media

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• O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Ignorance, Simple

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• The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Education, Done, Development

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• Lying is a deliberate choice to mislead a target without giving any notification of the intent to do so. There are two major forms of lying: concealment, leaving out true information; and falsification, or presenting false information as if it were true.

  Paul Ekman

  Lying, Two, Giving

  Paul Ekman (2009). “Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (Revised Edition)”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Statistics, Simplify

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• I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.

  John Carew

  Theory, Rejoice, I Can

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• Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Passing Away, Causes

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• Younger people who are being indoctrinated into the contemporary system of falsification - they really have to do some research to find out what is the truth. In the general population, people forget or don't care that much. And gradually what you hear drilled into your head everyday comes to be believed. People don't understand what you're talking about any more if you discuss the American war on South Vietnam.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Talking, People

  Source: chomsky.info

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• To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Integrity, Artist, Depth

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• I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Love, Fighting, Answers

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• There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

  Imre Lakatos

  Theory, Emergence

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

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• The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter

  Ed Markey

  Data, Analysis, Matter

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• I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state... a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one's mind and often misled it.

  William L. Shirer

  Lying, Taken, Years

  William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.423, RosettaBooks

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• We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

  R. D. Laing

  Love, Violence, Destroying Ourselves

  Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 3

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• My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Support, Parent, Criminals

  "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering". Book by Norman Finkelstein, 2000.

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• If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order to achieve it? Why not study law? A judge has to do everything that a scientist is exhorted to do in the way of withholding judgment until all the facts are in, and then judging impartially on the merits of the case as well as he can. ... Why not a course in Sherlock Holmes? The detectives, or at least the detective-story writers, join with the scientists in excoriating "dogmatic prejudice, lying, falsification of facts, and data, and willful fallacious reasoning."

  Anthony Standen

  Attitude, Lying, Science

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• I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Real, Civilization, World

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Power, Garden, Records

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• All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.

  Lester Bangs

  Book, Arbitrary, Convenient

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.442, Anchor

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• Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mean, Men, Discipline

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space and time, in experiences called thoughts, images, reveries, dreams, visions, hallucinations, dreams of memories, memories of dreams, memories of visions, dreams of hallucinations, refractions of refractions of refractions of that original Alpha and Omega of experience and reality, that Reality on whose repression, denial, splitting, projection, falsification, and general desecration and profanation our civilisation as much as anything is based.

  R. D. Laing

  Dream, Memories, Reality

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Holocaust denial is not only a falsification of history, it is an expression of anti-Semitism.

  David Irving

  Expression, Holocaust, Denial

  Source: thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com

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• All Jesus' pictures are falsifications; they cannot be about the real Jesus. This real man must have been totally different, because we know he enjoyed drinking - it is impossible to think of a person who enjoys drinking and not laughing. He enjoyed women - it is difficult to think of a man who enjoys women and not laughing. He was friendly, almost in love, with a prostitute, Mary Magdalene. It is difficult to move with a prostitute - he was not moving with a Catholic monk, not with a priest, not with the Pope... with a prostitute! These were the condemnations against him.

  Rajneesh

  Jesus, Real, Drinking

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