If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
KARL POPPERThe future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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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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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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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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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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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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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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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.
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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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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.
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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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