The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
KARL POPPER
Great men may make great mistakes.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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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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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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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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