Comment on reductionism by K. Popper

"As a philosophy, reductionism is a failure. From the point of view of method, the attempts at detailed reductions have led to one staggering success after another, and its failures have also been most fruitful science."

K. Popper, in Scientific reduction and the essential incompleteness of all science, section IX, an addendum to The Open Universe.

See my review of his book.