Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
KARL POPPERScience must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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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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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
KARL POPPERTrue ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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History has no meaning.
KARL POPPERHistory has no meaning.
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All life is problem-solving.
KARL POPPERAll life is problem-solving.
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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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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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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.
KARL POPPERAnd 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 is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence – rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.
KARL POPPERIt 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 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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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
KARL POPPERThe way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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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.
KARL POPPERThe 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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In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.
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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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