The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
KARL POPPERTheology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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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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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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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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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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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 wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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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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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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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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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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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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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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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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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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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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