Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

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.

Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

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

In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts

Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

FORCE, n. "Force is but might," the teacher said p/ "That definition's just."/ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ "Force is not might but must!"

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

When you show a man what he wants he will move heaven and earth to get it.

It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.

Young people need to be inspired, told they can achieve anything they set their minds to.

I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.

I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.