It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . . — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“This false epistemology, however, has also led to disastrous consequences. The theory that truth is manifest—that it is there for everyone to… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The genuine rationalist does not think that he or anyone else is in possession of the truth; nor does he think that… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“As indicated by our example, methodological nominalism is nowadays fairly generally accepted in the natural sciences. The problems of the social sciences, on the… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
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