It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.
Karl PopperThe conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place"
Karl PopperNature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature, and who in this way introduce morals into the natural world, in spite the fact that we are part of this world. We are products of nature, but nature has made us together with our power of altering the world, of foreseeing and of planning for the future, and of making far-reaching decisions for which we are morally responsible. Yet, responsibility, decisions, enter the world of nature only with us
Karl PopperIf you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
Karl PopperTo give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more universal laws, together with certain singular statements, the initial conditions ... We have thus two different kinds of statement, both of which are necessary ingredients of a complete causal explanation.
Karl Popper