Full Idea
Popper implies that we should be giving Nobel Prizes to scientists who use severe tests to show us what the world is not like!
Gist of Idea
Give Nobel Prizes for really good refutations?
Source
comment on Karl Popper (The Logic of Scientific Discovery [1934]) by Geoffrey Gorham - Philosophy of Science 2
Book Reference
Gorham,Geoffrey: 'Philosophy of Science' [One World 2009], p.36
A Reaction
A lovely simple point. The refuters are important members of the scientific team, but not the leaders.