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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
Karl Raimund Popper Sir
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Sir Popper
Sir Karl Raimund Popper
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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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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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The fundamental thing about human languages is that they can and should be used to describe something and this something is, somehow, the world. To be constantly and almost exclusively interested in the medium - in spectacle-cleaning - is a result of a philosophical mistake.
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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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No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.
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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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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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But it is certainly not possible to insist on one hand that the formalism is complete and to insist on the other hand that its application to 'the actual' actually demands a step which cannot be derived from it.
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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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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing
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The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.
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We have the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should tolerate even them whenever we can do so without running a great risk but the risk may become so great that we cannot allow ourselves the luxury.
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A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.
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No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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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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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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[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.
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We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
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Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.
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