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Dennis HackethalOP​·​#3578

Science has two parts: myth-making and criticism. (P. 40)

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Dennis HackethalOP​·​#3582

Popper guesses that science started “when Thales, the founder [of the Ionian school], encouraged Anaximander, his follower, to see whether he could produce a better explanation of the apparent stability of the earth than he himself had been able to offer.” (P. 43)