True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
KARL POPPERScience must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.
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Great men may make great mistakes.
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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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And it implies that if we respect truth, we must search for it by persistently searching for our errors: by indefatigable rational criticism, and self-criticism.
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If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
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The essential feature of dualist-interactionism is that the mind and brain are independent entities and that they interact by quantum physics.
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No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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