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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory. -- Imre Lakatos
The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter -- Ed Markey
Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification. -- Aldous Huxley
I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success. -- John Carew
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations. -- Erich Fromm
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards. -- Samuel R. Delany
It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect any statement in science against falsification. -- Karl Popper
I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme. -- Ernesto Cardenal
Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative. -- Jean Cocteau
I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting. -- Gunter Grass
This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was. -- W. G. Sebald
Lying is a deliberate choice to mislead a target without giving any notification of the intent to do so. There are two major forms of lying: concealment, leaving out true information; and falsification, or presenting false information as if it were true. -- Paul Ekman
My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies. -- Norman Finkelstein
I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state... a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one's mind and often misled it. -- William L. Shirer
All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix. -- Lester Bangs
To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking. -- John Barth
The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter. -- Ed Markey
The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself. -- Lee Smolin
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935) -- Dorothy L. Sayers

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