If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
KARL POPPERIf you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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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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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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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 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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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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All life is problem-solving.
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History has no meaning.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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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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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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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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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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