We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. - Karl Popper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. - Karl Popper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths. - Karl Popper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Good tests kill flawed theories we remain alive to guess again. - Karl Popper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. - Karl Popper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure. - Karl Popper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality. - Karl Popper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Our civilization...has not yet fully recovered from the shock of its birth - the transition from the tribal or 'closed society', with its submission to magical forces, to the 'open society' which sets free the critical powers of man. - Karl Popper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. - Karl Popper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with thema We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal. - Karl Popper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. - Karl Popper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. - Karl Popper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative. - Karl Popper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. - Karl Popper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. - Karl Popper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. - Karl Popper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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