Can We Know the Universe?: by Carl Sagan "The search for rules,
the only possible way to understand such a vast and complex
universe, is called science. The universe forces those who live
in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday
experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no
regularity, are in grave peril. The universe belongs to those
who, at least to some degree, have figured it out." Science as
Falsification: by Sir Karl Popper "It is easy to obtain
confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theoryif we
look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they
are the result of risky predictions; that is to say, if,
unenlightened by the theory in question, we should have expected
an event which was incompatible with the theoryan event which
would have refuted the theory. Every 'good' scientific theory is
a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a
theory forbids, the better it is." Science as Successful
Prediction: by Imre Lakatos "Thus the