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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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A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.
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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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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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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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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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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 history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.
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There is no history, only histories.
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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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There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.
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The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.
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Whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather than defend it.
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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.
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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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Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. 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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. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.
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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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My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being accompanied by a second-order tradition-that of critically discussing the myth. ... In a certain sense, science is myth-making just as religion is.
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