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.
KARL POPPERIf our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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History has no meaning.
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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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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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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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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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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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