We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
KARL POPPERHistory has no meaning.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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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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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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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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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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All life is problem-solving.
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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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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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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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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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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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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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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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