Quotes of The Day

"The empirical basis of objective science has thus nothing absolute about it. Science does not rest upon rock bottom. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building erected on piles... Driven down from far above into the swamp, but not to any natural or given base, and when we cease our attempt to drive our piles into a deeper layer, it is not because we have reached firm ground. We simply stop when we are satisfied that they are firm enough to carry the structure or at least for the time being"


Modern Positivists, Karl Popper