Science Must Begin With Myths,

Astrologers Were Greatly Impressed, And Misled, By What They Believed To Be Confirming Evidence-so Much So That They Were Quite Unimpressed By Any Unfavorable Evidence. Moreover, By Making Their Interpretations And Prophecies Sufficiently Vague They Were Able To Explain Away Anything That Might Have Been A Refutation Of The Theory Had The Theory And The Prophecies Been More Precise. In Order To Escape Falsification They Destroyed The Testability Of Their Theory. It Is A Typical Soothsayer's Trick To Predict Things So Vaguely That The Predictions Can Hardly Fail: That They Become Irrefutable.

I Have Learned More From Hayek Than From Any Other Living Thinker, Except Perhaps Alfred Tarski - But Not Even Excepting Russell.

The Scientific Tradition Is Distinguished From The Pre-scientific Tradition By Having Two Layers. Like The Latter, It Passes On Its Theories; But It Also Passes On A Critical Attitude Towards Them.

Every Discovery Contains An Irrational Element Or A Creative Intuition.

I Am Opposed To Looking Upon Logic As A Kind Of Game. ... One Might Think That It Is A Matter Of Choice Or Convention Which Logic One Adopts. I Disagree With This View.