The method of learning by trial and error – of learning from our mistakes – seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practiced by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees, or by men of science.
KARL POPPERIt is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence – rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians.
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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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Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all.
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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test and that they can be regarded as finally verified retires from the game.
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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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History has no meaning.
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Great men may make great mistakes.
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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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