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«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»
Author: Karl Popper
| About:
Theory
| Keywords:
appears, intended, neither, sign, solve, theory, understood
«We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell»
Author: Karl Popper
| About:
Religion,
War
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alive, alive with, bodies, burned, eternal, fire, fought, gentleness, genuinely, hell, intention, In Love and War, religious, religious war, saving, souls, The Eternal, wars
«Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.»
Author: Karl Popper
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finite
«No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.»
Author: Karl Popper
| Keywords:
adopt
«Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.»
«We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure»
«It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.»
«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.»
Author: Karl Popper
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avoidable, benevolent, dictatorship, initiative, in the main, modest, philosophers, public policy, realistic, recognized, replace
«Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths»
Author: Karl Popper
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myths
«Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.»
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