“The philosopher Karl Popper (1902–94) often remarked “We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.16” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Societies progress by the free assertion of differing proposals, followed by criticism, followed by the genuine possibility of change in the light… — Robert Carroll Copy Share Image
Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
“Karl Popper once said that attempts to create heaven on earth invariably produce hell. Libertarianism holds out the goal not of a… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
“A democratic state begins from the assumption that most of those who gravitate toward power are mediocre and probably immoral. It assumes… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Are [the arts and the sciences] really as distinct as we seem to assume? [...] Most universities will have distinct faculties of… — Stephen Mumford Copy Share Image
“Popper’s falsificationism is intimately connected to the notion of an open society. An open society is one in which no permanent truth… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a logical method of having new ideas. Discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.… — Frans P.B. Osinga Copy Share Image
Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Karl Popper believed [POP] that nothing can ever be known with absolute certainty. He instead had a concept of “truth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the philosopher Karl Popper and his ally Ernst Gombrich, wrote many critiques of the zeitgeist and argued that although there is no… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“But the basis of Freud's ideas aren't accepted by all philosophers, though many accept that he was right about the possibility of… — Nigel Warburton Copy Share Image
