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The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.

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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
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.
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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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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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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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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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With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle. ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato.
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Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.
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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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We do not know. We can only guess.
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There is no history, only histories.
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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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It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.
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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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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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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 seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.
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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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