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 POPPEREvery intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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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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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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History has no meaning.
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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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All life is problem-solving.
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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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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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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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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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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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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 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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