Quotes About Falsification

For Sorel, the fact that Marx's prediction that contemporary society would increasingly divide itself into two, and no more than two, mutually hostile classes was falsified by time, could be offset by the readiness of the proletariat to remain intransigent, opposing its nonproletarian opponents with absolute determination.

symptoms: an unreasonable belief that everyone around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him.

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It is therefore no exaggeration to observe that Social Justice Theorists have created a new religion, a tradition of faith that is actively hostile to reason, falsification, and disagreement of any kind

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. ( Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne , 8 September 1935)

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalise false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

When challenged by a zealous Popperian to say how evolution could ever be falsified, J. B. S. Haldane famously growled: 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.

A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.

That means adopting "a mindset of falsification," always striving to "disprove" your hypothesis, and seeing "if it stands up to the assault." One of Shubin Stein's favorite questions is, "Why might I be wrong?

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

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

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

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

I graduated first in my class from alibi school.

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.

Each fake called for some more fakes to cover the first ones up,

If you only make it up, you never have to live it down.

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

Science does not work by proving statements true, but rather by proving statements false.

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.

No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.

In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.

Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.

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