Dierk Haasis

“The method of learning by trial and error—of learning from our mistakes—seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practised by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees or by men of science.”
― Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

“Speak, then, o body, shout aloud, And break my only mind from chains To go where ploughing’s ended.”
― Dylan Thomas, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas

“Women are not entirely wrong when they reject the moral rules proclaimed in society, since it is we men alone who have made them.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“At least some of them, I suspect, have turned to probability theory in the hope that it would give them what they had originally expected from a subjectivist or epistemological theory of the attainment of truth through verification; that is, a theory of rational and justifiable belief, based upon observed instances.”
― Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge