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 way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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All life is problem-solving.
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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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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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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 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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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 is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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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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Great men may make great mistakes.
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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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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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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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