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One 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…
- To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more…
- 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 war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with…
- No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may disprove…
- The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the…
- I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or convention…
- I think that there is only one way to science - or to philosophy, for that matter: to meet a problem, to see its beauty…
- A system such as classical mechanics may be 'scientific' to any degree you like; but those who uphold it dogmatically - believing, perhaps, that it…
- 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…
- Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the…
- 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 are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the…
- The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.
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