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Human 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…
- Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of dispositions pretty well;…
- Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it…
- Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that…
- The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live…
- The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.
- There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the…
- We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of…
- There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.
- Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong