I Have Spoken To Einstein And He

The Growth Of Our Knowledge Is The Result Of A Process Closely Resembling What Darwin Called 'natural Selection'; That Is, The Natural Selection Of Hypotheses: Our Knowledge Consists, At Every Moment, Of Those Hypotheses Which Have Shown Their (comparative) Fitness By Surviving So Far In Their Struggle For Existence, A Competitive Struggle Which Eliminates Those Hypotheses Which Are Unfit.

[the Aim Of Science Is] To Explain What So Far Has Taken To Be An Explicans, Such As A Law Of Nature. The Task Of Empirical Science Constantly Renews Itself. We May Go On Forever, Proceeding To Explanations Of A Higher And Higher Universality.

What Really Makes Science Grow Is New Ideas, Including False Ideas.

Our Belief In Any Particular Natural Law Cannot Have A Safer Basis Than Our Unsuccessful Critical Attempts To Refute It.

We Hate The Very Idea That Our Own Ideas May Be Mistaken, So We Cling Dogmatically To Our Conjectures.