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We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
Karl Popper
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Karl Popper
Age: 92 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 28
Died: 1994
Died: September 17
Philosopher
Philosopher Of Science
Sociologist
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Vienna
Austria
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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 universal laws, together with certain singular statements, the initial conditions ... We have thus two different kinds of statement, both of which are necessary ingredients of a complete causal explanation.
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The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative for ever.
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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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I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth
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Criticism of my alleged views was widespread and highly successful. I have yet to meet a criticism of my views.
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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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I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society.
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The question is not how to get good people to rule THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.
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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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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
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Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.
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Good tests kill flawed theories we remain alive to guess again.
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We have the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should tolerate even them whenever we can do so without running a great risk but the risk may become so great that we cannot allow ourselves the luxury.
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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 trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.
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[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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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
Karl Popper
The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: Who is in his place
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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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