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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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Karl Popper
Age: 92 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 28
Died: 1994
Died: September 17
Philosopher
Philosopher Of Science
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Vienna
Austria
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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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Criticism of my alleged views was widespread and highly successful. I have yet to meet a criticism of my views.
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Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.
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Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.
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There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.
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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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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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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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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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[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task of empirical science constantly renews itself. We may go on forever, proceeding to explanations of a higher and higher universality.
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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 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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A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.
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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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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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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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Good tests kill flawed theories we remain alive to guess again.
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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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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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