Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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 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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If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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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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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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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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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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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.
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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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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 game of science is, in principle, without end.
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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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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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Great men may make great mistakes.
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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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