True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
KARL POPPERThe essential feature of dualist-interactionism is that the mind and brain are independent entities and that they interact by quantum physics.
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 future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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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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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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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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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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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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In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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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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