Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
KARL POPPERHistory has no meaning.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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All life is problem-solving.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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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 philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
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The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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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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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.
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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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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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History has no meaning.
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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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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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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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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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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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If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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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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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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