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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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
University Teacher
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Vienna
Austria
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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.
Karl Popper
The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.
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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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We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
Karl Popper
Criticism of my alleged views was widespread and highly successful. I have yet to meet a criticism of my views.
Karl Popper
Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he is yet so are animals, and even plants. They too were born, long ago, into a physico-chemical world, a world they never made.
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It is wrong and dangerous to extol freedom by telling people that they will certainly be all right once they are free. The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.
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Whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather than defend it.
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We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
Karl Popper
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.
Karl Popper
Simple statements are to be prized more highly than less simple ones because they tell us more because their empirical content is greater and because they are better testable.
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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.
Karl Popper
Good tests kill flawed theories we remain alive to guess again.
Karl Popper
It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.
Karl Popper
No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.
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I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth
Karl Popper
What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.
Karl Popper
. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.
Karl Popper
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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Some scientists find, or so it seems, that they get their best ideas when smoking others by drinking coffee or whisky. Thus there is no reason why I should not admit that some may get their ideas by observing, or by repeating observations.
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