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“To shut down bacterial protein”
― Mary P. Harward, Medical Secrets

“Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.”
― Karl Popper

“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”
― Karl Popper

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”
― Karl R. Popper

“No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it”
― Karl Popper

“All life is problem solving”
― Karl Popper

“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”
― Karl R. Popper

“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”
― Karl Popper

“A theory that explains everything, explains nothing”
― Karl Popper

“The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.”
― Karl R. Popper

“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.”
― Karl R. Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery