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Karl Popper: The Importance of Falsifiability in Science

„A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.“

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Karl Popper was an Austrian-British philosopher and the founder of critical rationalism.

Popper emphasizes falsifiability as a criterion for scientific theories.


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Karl Popper quote about falsifiability and the nature of scientific theories

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902–1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher. Through his work in the philosophy of knowledge and science, as well as in social, historical, and political philosophy, he shaped critical rationalism. He also served as a professor of logic and scientific methods.

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"In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality." Karl Popper
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Robert Lawrence Kuhn quote about the scientific method and non-physical theoriesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I like to distinguish between the scientific method, which is applied to all materialistic theories. The scientific method is one of observation or experimentation, repeatability, falsification, the repeatability by different techniques of different labs, or prediction and results. It's a scientific method. I say that if it's a non-physical theory, or the theory has any aspect of non-physicalism to it, it doesn't have to be all, any aspect invalidates, to some degree invalidates, the scientific method as I just described from being applicable. And I think there's a tendency in some theories that have some non-physical aspect to try to show their legitimacy by applying the scientific method... I think that's a false desire, because once you're non-physical you are invalidating, to one degree or another, the scientific method. Maybe not totally, but in some degree." Robert Lawrence Kuhn
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Karl Popper quote about recognizing when a theory seems like the only possible explanationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve." Karl Popper
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Karl Popper quote about evolution as a metaphysical research programCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science." Karl Popper
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17. September 2025
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"No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain" Paul Feyerabend
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"Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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