A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
KARL POPPERWe 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 can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it.
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In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
KARL POPPERIn philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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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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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
KARL POPPERNo rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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Theories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the mesh ever finer and finer.
KARL POPPERTheories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the mesh ever finer and finer.
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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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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 quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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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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If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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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 wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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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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