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.
KARL POPPERThe game of science is, in principle, without end.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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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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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
KARL POPPERWhat we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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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.
KARL POPPERInstead 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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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
KARL POPPERI 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.
KARL POPPERAnd 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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We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
KARL POPPERThose who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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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.
KARL POPPERIt 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 don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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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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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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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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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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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.
KARL POPPERHe 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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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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