We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
KARL POPPERTheology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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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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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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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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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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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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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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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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