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All life is problem solving
Karl Popper
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Philosopher
Inspiring
Inspire
Life Is
Problem
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We do not know. We can only guess.
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Philosopher
Knows
Objectivity
Subjectivity
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There is no history, only histories.
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Philosopher
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We never know what we are talking about.
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Philosopher
Math
Mathematical Logic
Talking
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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing
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Philosopher
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All things living are in search of a better world .
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Philosopher
All Things
World
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Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.
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Philosopher
Errors
Hypothesis
Rationality
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There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.
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Philosopher
Observation
Pure
Theory
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Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.
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Philosopher
Obstacles
Problem
Raises
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The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.
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Philosopher
Depends
Disagreement
Growth
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The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.
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Earth
Heaven
Hell
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Definitions.... are never really needed, and rarely of any use
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Philosopher
Definitions
Needed
Use
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Philosopher
Science
Criticism
Myth
Begin
Myths
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Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
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Philosopher
Science
Technology
Alive
Flawed
Tests
Guess
Remain
Theories
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What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.
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Philosopher
Grows
Ideas
New Ideas
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All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory.
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Philosopher
Science
Falsity
Theory
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A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.
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Philosopher
Religion
Atheism
Theory
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The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.
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Philosopher
Lure
Promise
Temptation
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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Philosopher
Art
Funny
Science
Crazy
Systematic
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Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.
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Philosopher
Creative
Discovery
Intuition
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It must be possible for an empirical system to be refuted by experience.
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Philosopher
Experience
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It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Philosopher
Always Wrong
Dictatorship
Happens
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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Philosopher
Communication
Impossible
Misunderstood
Speak
Way
Cannot
Such A Way
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Philosopher
Earth
Hell
Keeping Promises
Kept Promises
Paradise
Paradise On Earth
Promise
Produced
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Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.
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Philosopher
Genuine
Tests
Theory
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We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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Philosopher
Fate
Makers
Prophet
Pose
Prophets
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Philosopher
Absence
Ignorance
Paradise On Earth
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Philosopher
Journey
Knowledge
Learning
Science
Finite
Ignorance
Infinite
Only
Must
Necessarily
While
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[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.
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Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed.
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Philosopher
Plato
Political
Program
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I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth
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Philosopher
Effort
May
Rationalism
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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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Philosopher
Ifs
Quiet
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Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.
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Philosopher
Myth
Scientific Theory
Theory
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Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.
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Philosopher
Art
Improvement
Theory
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The only way to test a hypothesis is to look for all the information that disagrees with it.
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Philosopher
Information
Looks
Tests
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We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
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Philosopher
Claims
Names
Tolerance
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Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.
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Philosopher
Evolution
Mistake
Speed
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If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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Philosopher
Men
Civilization
Wish
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It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.
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Philosopher
Knowledge
Truth
Mistake
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The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place"
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Philosopher
Asking
Conspiracy
Theory
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You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
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Philosopher
Men
Rational
Shooting
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Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.
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Philosopher
Philosophical
Philosophy
Roots
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We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.
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Philosopher
Hate
Ideas
May
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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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Philosopher
Ignorance
Infinite
Littles
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No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.
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Philosopher
Certain
May
Theory
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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Philosopher
Attitude
Men
Doe
Rational
Adopt
Effect
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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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Philosopher
People
Stupidity
Wickedness
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The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.
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Philosopher
Bad Ideas
Ideas
Survival
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Criticism of my alleged views was widespread and highly successful. I have yet to meet a criticism of my views.
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Philosopher
Criticism
Successful
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Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.
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Philosopher
Science
Errors
Humans
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