The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
KARL POPPERWe 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.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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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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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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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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The essential feature of dualist-interactionism is that the mind and brain are independent entities and that they interact by quantum physics.
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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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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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History has no meaning.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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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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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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