The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is a methodological rule, and since the demarcation between science and nonscience is vague. But it is more than sharp enough to make a distinction between many physical theories on the one hand, and metaphysical theories, such as psychoanalysis, or Marxism (in its present form), on the other. This is, of course, one of my main theses; and nobody who has not understood it can be said to have understood my theory.The situation with Marxism is, incidentally, very different from that with psychoanalysis. Marxism was once a scientific theory: it predicted that capitalism would lead to increasing misery and, through a more or less mild revolution, to socialism; it predicted that this would happen first in the technically highest developed countries; and it predicted that the technical evolution of the 'means of production' would lead to social, political, and ideological developments, rather than the other way round.But the (so-called) socialist revolution came first in one of the technically backward countries. And instead of the means of production producing a new ideology, it was Lenin's and Stalin's ideology that Russia must push forward with its industrialization ('Socialism is dictatorship of the proletariat plus electrification') which promoted the new development of the means of production.Thus one might say that Marxism was once a science, but one which was refuted by some of the facts which happened to clash with its predictions (I have here mentioned just a few of these facts).However, Marxism is no longer a science; for it broke the methodological rule that we must accept falsification, and it immunized itself against the most blatant refutations of its predictions. Ever since then, it can be described only as nonscience—as a metaphysical dream, if you like, married to a cruel reality.Psychoanalysis is a very different case. It is an interesting psychological metaphysics (and no doubt there is some truth in it, as there is so often in metaphysical ideas), but it never was a science. There may be lots of people who are Freudian or Adlerian cases: Freud himself was clearly a Freudian case, and Adler an Adlerian case. But what prevents their theories from being scientific in the sense here described is, very simply, that they do not exclude any physically possible human behaviour. Whatever anybody may do is, in principle, explicable in Freudian or Adlerian terms. (Adler's break with Freud was more Adlerian than Freudian, but Freud never looked on it as a refutation of his theory.)The point is very clear. Neither Freud nor Adler excludes any particular person's acting in any particular way, whatever the outward circumstances. Whether a man sacrificed his life to rescue a drowning, child (a case of sublimation) or whether he murdered the child by drowning him (a case of repression) could not possibly be predicted or excluded by Freud's theory; the theory was compatible with everything that could happen—even without any special immunization treatment.Thus while Marxism became non-scientific by its adoption of an immunizing strategy, psychoanalysis was immune to start with, and remained so. In contrast, most physical theories are pretty free of immunizing tactics and highly falsifiable to start with. As a rule, they exclude an infinity of conceivable possibilities.

Karl R. Popper

Luck is not some esoteric, godlike phenomenon. Luck is countable but undefinable. Luck easily can be explained as number of factors acting in a favour of a person. These factors' behaviour could be statistically proved , and the probability of such result is possible. It is not related to something explainable event. Actually, the miracle would be if these events (luck) are not in presence in our life. The matter as then would be mathematics proved wrong. So, make your luck!"

Csaba Gabor-B

The possibility of making an error and coming back to try again is real when you have not fully prepared.

Israelmore Ayivor

It was only possible because it was attained. An Idea isn't feasible until it becomes reality

Seyi Ayoola

Success is a possibility and a reality to its true seeker.

Sunday Adelaja

Believe is confident hope.Hope is faith.Faith is timeless possibility.Possibility is spiritual.Spiritual is divine

Lailah Gifty Akita

The world of possibility exists in everyday life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to conquer every mountain to realize the dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Believe not in the reality, but believe in the possibility.

Debasish Mridha

If you keep seeing events and others through your existing lens you would miss out on the new possibility. Sometimes, reality!!!

Harrish Sairaman

Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.

Sarah Manguso

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.

Alfred North Whitehead

Passion towards a dream is the fuel that fires every trace of impossibility in the environment, paving way for you to win with style.

Israelmore Ayivor

You can achieve the set-goals with passion, persistent with perseverance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination is an endless possibility.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A task is only difficulty, when we not find the best strategy to get it done.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Courage to act is a daring spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be strong and begin again!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Gracious self is the divinity within.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't get mad, William," he finally said, provoking the distraught to look up at him, "I know it's hard, an' unfair, but you can't let yourself become angry. You're too nice, - too good, - if you can't at least hope for a possibility, then what happiness can you expect to have? You have to hold on to it, or else you've got nothing..." (77)

J. Neven-Pugh

Motherhood by definition means a journey into the depths of one’s possibility.

H.L. Balcomb

Between the streams of probability & possibility, lies the timeless, spaceless realm where time gets created!

Vishwanath S J

Everything is possible, but where can I find everything?!

Ljupka Cvetanova

Suicide creates his own society: to shut yourself off from other people in some dingy, rented box and stare, like Melville's Bartleby, day in and day out at the dead wall outside your window is in itself a rejection of the world which is said to be rejecting you. It is a way of saying, like Bartleby, 'I prefer not to' to every offer and every possibility, which is a condition no amount of social engineering will cure.

Al Álvarez

Everything is possible in this world so don't fear anything

Ntambara Sylvestre Owen Berbason

Fear is for the powerless. Fear is for the alone. But as you stand together now, you are neither of those. Together, you amplify each other’s strengths; you nullify each other’s weaknesses.

A.J. Darkholme

Right. So if the eyes are shining, you know you're doing it. If the eyes are not shining, you get to ask a question. And this is the question: who am I being that my players' eyes are not shining? We can do that with our children, too. Who am I being, that my children's eyes are not shining? That's a totally different world.

Benjamin Zander

Still, if I don't believe in the possibility, I might go mad from fear.

Libbie Hawker

That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility.

Donna Tartt

The mind is a universe, and it has the power to completely create any possibility.

Lionel Suggs

If you think it is possible, it will be possible. If you think it is impossible, the imposible will be possible. Whatever you think; whether posible or impossible will forever be possible to happen.

Israelmore Ayivor

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

Vironika Tugaleva

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility.

Nikola Tesla

Rekindle the glowing spirit for success in your heart. Refresh your mind with possibility thoughts and never give way for your passion to drink from the cup of tiredness. Be renewed in your thoughts every single day.

Israelmore Ayivor

If it's possible in the mind, then it's possible anywhere.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Many people place facts above faith and that makes things seem impossible for them

Constancev Chuks Friday

Day by day, there exists the possibility for the dream to come true.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith is timeless possibility.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love while there is a still a blessed possibility to love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Repent while there is still time to change.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We hope for what we want.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We can all rise to a higher divine-self with encouragement.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Countless possibilities exist in any situation. You must maintain a positive outlook to see the miraculous possibilities.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Peace shouldn't be an option, it must be the objective, peace shouldn't be a possibility, it must be the purpose.

Amit Kalantri

If you can dream it, you can make it a reality. The possibility lies in your ability, enthusiasm and hardwork to realise it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The human mind and what we've achieved with it is remarkable. But it does not come close to what we can do, be, see and heal with our hearts

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Good fortune often occurs when you stop expecting life to present opportunities to you and you start presenting opportunities to life.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Once you believe that you can do something, there is not a single person in the universe who can convince you otherwise.

Germany Kent

Depression, which lives below the horizon, is the result of painting and entertaining negative imagery - most of which has not taken place in reality. Get up, move, and appreciate that which is given. What is lacking is usually material and heavily influenced by external forces. Don't play yourself, save yourself.

T.F. Hodge

There are people who know where they want to be, and also have a roadmap in their mind, about how to get there. But something stops them! They either keep waiting for better circumstances, or simply lack the courage to give up the comfort of a secure life. For them, the pursuit of their purpose is a risky proposition. Often, those are the same people that die with the weight of regrets. Those are the people who feel unfulfilled or unworthy at the end of their journey. They bury their dreams for the sake of a safe life, without ever venturing into the world of possibilities. But the truth is that if you risk nothing for the pursuit of your passion, you risk more. An even deeper reality is that there’s never a perfect time; the most ideal and opportune time is the time when YOU choose to begin your journey. Find courage to take the first step today. Your age, your pace, or your handicap doesn’t matter. Nothing is insurmountable if you have passion and persistence – your heart knows this. You simply have to convince your mind to play along. Find your moments of courage – the times when you feel strong, able, and energized. Tap those moments to launch yourself; the world beckons!

Manprit Kaur

I will pursue my dreams wholeheartedly.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May you find the grace to chase your dream with all your might

Lailah Gifty Akita

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