“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
KARL POPPEREvery intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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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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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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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 our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.
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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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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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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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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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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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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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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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Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.
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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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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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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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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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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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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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History has no meaning.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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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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The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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