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

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.

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

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.

...forever isn't long enough to have you in my life.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one dayyou wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want tobe, with someone you realize you don’t know.

Great communication, Character, Competitive drive, Consistency, Compassion, Confidence -- skills successful leaders share.

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.

My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.