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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
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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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The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.
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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 know a great deal, but our ignorance is sobering and boundless. With each step forward, with each problem which we solve, we not only discover new and unsolved problems, but we also discover that where we believed that we were standing on firm and safe ground, all things are, in truth, insecure and in a state of flux.
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We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
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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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[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.
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The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim, that is, to bring about a state of affairs which makes reforms without violence possible.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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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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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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It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.
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Reason like science, grows by way of mutual criticism the only possible way of planning its growth is to develop those institutions that safeguard. the freedom of thought
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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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We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.
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But some of these theories are so bold that they can clash with reality: they are the testable theories of science. And when they clash, then we know that there is a reality something that can inform us that our ideas are mistaken.
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There is no history, only histories.
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