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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
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Sir Karl Raimund Popper
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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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Reason like science, grows by way of mutual criticism the only possible way of planning its growth is to develop those institutions that safeguard. the freedom of thought
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Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.
Karl Popper
We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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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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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Karl Popper
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing
Karl Popper
The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative for ever.
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The question is not how to get good people to rule THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.
Karl Popper
Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate, before you have critically examined your criticism.
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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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The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: Who is in his place
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A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.
Karl Popper
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
Karl Popper
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.
Karl Popper
Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but with the critical discussion of myths, and of magical techniques and practices.
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[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . .
Karl Popper
Criticism of my alleged views was widespread and highly successful. I have yet to meet a criticism of my views.
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