“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
KARL POPPERTheories 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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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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All life is problem-solving.
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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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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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History has no meaning.
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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 may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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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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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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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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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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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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