The game of science is, in principle, without end.
KARL POPPERScience must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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Great men may make great mistakes.
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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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If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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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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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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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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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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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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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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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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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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