We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
KARL POPPERAll life is problem-solving.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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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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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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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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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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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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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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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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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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Great men may make great mistakes.
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It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.
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