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.
KARL POPPER
Theories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the mesh ever finer and finer.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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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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Theories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the mesh ever finer and finer.
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All life is problem-solving.
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The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence – rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.
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