Creative Quotations from . . .
Karl Popper
(1902-1994) born on
Jul 28
Austrian-British philosopher. His writings include "The Open Society and its Enemies," 1945 and "Poverty of Historicism," 1957.
         
   
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F
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

R
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.
A
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
N
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
K
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: Conjectures and Refutations."
R: The Open Society and Its Enemies."
A: In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.
N: Remark, Aug 1982
K: British Philosophy in the Mid-Century," (ed. C. A. Mace)
 

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