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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

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
Perspective, Survivor, Falsification
W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

Imre Lakatos
Theory, Falsification, Emergence
Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.

John Carew
Theory, Rejoice, Falsification

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
Book, Arbitrary, Falsification
Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.442, Anchor

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