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
KARL POPPERInstead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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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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The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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History has no meaning.
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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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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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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Great men may make great mistakes.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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