". . . it seems to me certain……" — Karl Popper

. . . it seems to me certain that more people are… - Karl Popper

". . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness."

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119 Quotes by Karl Popper

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Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a…
I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as…
It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of…
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and…
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and…
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is,…
Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp.…
The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its…
Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with…
In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to…
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only…

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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole… — Aristotle
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;… — Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every… — J. J. Abrams
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your… — Arthur Ashe
You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're… — Dave Attell
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. — Margaret Atwood
I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political… — Margaret Atwood
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses… — Margaret Atwood
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen

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