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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
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Karl Raimund Popper Sir
Karl Raimund
Sir Popper
Sir Karl Raimund Popper
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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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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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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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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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[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.
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No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.
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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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The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: Who is in his place
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The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.
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The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance
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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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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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The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.
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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 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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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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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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We never know what we are talking about.
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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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Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . .
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