Great men may make great mistakes.
KARL POPPERTrue ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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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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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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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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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
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He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test and that they can be regarded as finally verified retires from the game.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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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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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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