Source: What Is This Thing Called Science? (Third Edition; 1999), Chapter 7, The limitations of falsificationism, p. 87.
“…no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.”
The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934)
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