That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.

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

That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.

Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.

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

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

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.