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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Karl Popper
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Karl Popper
Age: 92 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 28
Died: 1994
Died: September 17
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Vienna
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No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.
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A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but the falsifiability of a system is to be taken as a criterion of demarcation... It must be possible for an empirical or scientific system to be refuted by experience.
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The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.
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The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: Who is in his place
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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 that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.
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Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
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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 mind.
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What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.
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[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task of empirical science constantly renews itself. We may go on forever, proceeding to explanations of a higher and higher universality.
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I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth
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If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
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