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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
Karl Raimund Popper Sir
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The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.
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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 words and ideas instead of fighting with swords is the very basis of our civilization, and especially of all its legal and parliamentary institutions.
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We never know what we are talking about.
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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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If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.
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There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot in principle be refuted, by falsifying some of the conclusions which can be deduced from 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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