Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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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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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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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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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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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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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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All life is problem-solving.
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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.
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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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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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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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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Great men may make great mistakes.
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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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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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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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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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