| Quotes: Karl R.Popper on science from Conj and Refutations |
[Aug. 3rd, 2003|02:42 pm] |
What is important about a theory is its explanatory power, and whether it stands up to criticism and to tests. The question of its origin, of how it is arrived at - whether by an 'inductive procedure', as some say, or by an act of intution has little to do with its scientific character.
As to the starting point of science, I do not say that science starts from intuitions but that it starts from problems; that these problems arise in our attempts to understand the world as we know it - the world of our 'experience'( where 'experience' consists largely of expectations or thories and partly also of observational knowledge - although I happen to believe that there does not exist anything like pure observational knowledge, untainted by expectations or thories). |
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