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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 conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: Who is in his place
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We do not know. We can only guess.
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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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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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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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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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It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
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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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No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.
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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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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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What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.
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It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some difficulties, and to be criticized in rational terms. (Bohr's complementarity cannot be so criticized, I fear it can only be accepted or denounced - perhaps as being ad hoc, or as being irrational, or as being hopelessly vague.)
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We never know what we are talking about.
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The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.
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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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The defence of democracy must consist in making anti-democratic experiences too costly for those who try them much more costly than a democratic compromise
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