Karl Popper

Here is an idea that just might save the world. It is that science, properly
understood, provides us with the methodological key to the salvation of
humanity.
A version of this idea can be found buried in the works of Karl
Popper. Famously, Popper argued that science cannot verify theories, but
can only refute them. This sounds very negative, but actually it is not,
for science succeeds in making such astonishing progress by subjecting
its theories to sustained, ferocious attempted falsification. Every time a
scientific theory is refuted by experiment or observation, scientists are
forced to try to think up something better, and it is this, according to
Popper, which drives science forward.
[London: 2017]

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