The game of science is, in principle, without end.
KARL POPPERTheology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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History has no meaning.
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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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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 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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Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.
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Great men may make great mistakes.
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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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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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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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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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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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No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
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