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.
KARL POPPERScience may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
More Karl Popper Quotes
-
-
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
KARL POPPER -
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
KARL POPPER -
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
KARL POPPER -
Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
KARL POPPER -
Great men may make great mistakes.
KARL POPPER -
All life is problem-solving.
KARL POPPER -
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.
KARL POPPER -
The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
KARL POPPER -
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
KARL POPPER -
I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.
KARL POPPER -
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
KARL POPPER -
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
KARL POPPER -
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
KARL POPPER -
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
KARL POPPER -
We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
KARL POPPER