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.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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What we should do, I suggest, is to give up the idea of ultimate sources of knowledge, and admit that all knowledge is human; that it is mixed with our errors, our prejudices, our dreams, and our hopes; that all we can do is to grope for truth even though it be beyond our reach.
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Birth: | 28th July, 1902 |
Death: | 17th September, 1994 |
Nationality: | Austrian |
Profession: | Philosopher |
Karl Raimund Popper is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century. Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favour of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.
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