Heroic Science

Shaped the way scientists think about what they were doing

Popper rejected the search for the truth

For a statement to be scientific it must be falsifiable

Bold ideas

New, daring hypotheses or conjectures

Severe attempts at refutation

Search for great truth and knowing that it's false

Refutation of great conjectures

it takes the risk of being tested and refuted and risk of clashing with reality

Copernicus

Bold because it clashed with the accepted views

not bold because no feasible crucial experiment

Not willing to risk his life for his observations

Kepler

Bold metaphysical view

search for the truth greater that his enthusiasm for metaphysical harmony of the world

his creation of the three laws were in excellent agreement with Tycho's detailed observations

Einstein

Greatest Theory

Very bold

Newton's was a great approximation but false

Dervied 3 important predictions two of which were completely new

He was able to admit that his theories can be refuted

Einstein officially declared that his theory was false