Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.

Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.