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The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: Who is in his place
Karl Popper
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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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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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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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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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We do not know. We can only guess.
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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 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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If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.
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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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. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.
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There is no history, only histories.
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Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.
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There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.
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Good tests kill flawed theories we remain alive to guess again.
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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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Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.
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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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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.
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