A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

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

It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

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

When we enter a new situation in life and are confronted by a new person, we bring with us the prejudices of the past and our previous experiences of people. These prejudices we project upon the new person. Indeed, getting to know a person is largely a matter of withdrawing projections; of dispelling the smoke screen of what we imagine he is like and replacing it with the reality of what he is actually like.