Myth of the Framework Book Club
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Science has two parts: myth-making and criticism. (P. 40)
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)