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I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.
— Karl Popper
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing
— Karl Popper
Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.
— Karl Popper
Great men may make great mistakes;
— Karl R. Popper
If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
— Karl Popper
It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so.
— Karl Popper
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
— Karl R. Popper
Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.
— Karl Popper
The Vienna Circle was empiricist and phenomenalist, Popper was a critical rationalist.
— Karl R. Popper
We do not know. We can only guess.
— Karl Popper
Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement ...
— Karl Popper
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
— Karl Popper
I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides.
— Karl Popper
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It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.
— Karl Popper
It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.
— Karl Popper
There is no reason to believe that a definition necessarily determines the ontological status of the term defined.)
— Karl Popper
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.
— Karl Popper
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
— Karl Popper
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
— Karl Popper
We never know what we are talking about.
— Karl Popper
All life is problem solving
— Karl R. Popper
Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.
— Karl Popper
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.
— Karl Popper
No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain ... No scientific theory is sacrosanct ...
— Karl Popper
Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.
— Karl Popper
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
— Karl Popper
Taleb's hero, on the other hand, is Karl Popper, who said that you could not know with any certainty that a proposition was true;
— Malcolm Gladwell
Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.
— Karl Popper
Relativism is one of the many crimes committed by intellectuals. It is a betrayal of reason and of humanity.
— Karl R. Popper
If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
— Karl Popper
The only way to test a hypothesis is to look for all the information that disagrees with it.
— Karl Popper
The essential feature of dualist-interactionism is that the mind and brain are independent entities...and that they interact by quantum physics.
— Karl R. Popper
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
— Karl Popper
We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.
— Karl Popper
Every 'good' scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is.
— Karl R. Popper
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
— Karl Popper
Theology, I still think, is due to lack of faith.
— Karl R. Popper
The reality of time and change seemed to me the crux of realism.
— Karl R. Popper
History has no meaning.
— Karl R. Popper
Denying realism amounts to megalomania.
— Karl R. Popper
I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme ...
— Karl Popper
Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
— Karl Popper
Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.
— Karl Popper
The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.
— Karl Popper
There is no history, only histories.
— Karl Popper
I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.
— Karl R. Popper
All things living are in search of a better world .
— Karl Popper
If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.
— Karl Popper
You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
— Karl Popper
It seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.
— Karl Popper
