Falsification famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
-- Imre Lakatos

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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

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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

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This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.
-- W. G. Sebald

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Death is better than disease.
Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.
Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.
For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least thatâ€™s why Iâ€™ve put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. Iâ€™m no great runner, by any means. Iâ€™m at an ordinary â€“ or perhaps more like mediocre â€“ level. But thatâ€™s not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.
I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.
It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor