While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
KARL POPPERAll life is problem-solving.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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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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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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The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.
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Great men may make great mistakes.
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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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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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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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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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