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From Quotes by Karl Popper
- The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is…
- Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building…
- The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes…
- In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that the experimental results…
- Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of…
- My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being…
- Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he…
- We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely…
- It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this…
- The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and…
- The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods whose conspiracies explain…
- Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow…
- Our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable as it is dangerous ... our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.
- There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot in…
- Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that…
- But it is certainly not possible to insist on one hand that the formalism is complete and to insist on the other hand that its…
- For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which…
- 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
- We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the…
- A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from…
- There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our…
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