Most of us, it seems, have a strong inclination to accept the peculiarities of our social environment as if they were ‘natural’. - Karl Popper

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Most of us, it seems, have a strong inclination to accept the peculiarities of our social environment as if they were ‘natural’.

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About Karl Popper

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification. According to Popper, a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can (and should) be scrutinised with decisive experiments. Popper was opposed to the classical justificationist account of knowledge, which he replaced with critical rationalism, namely "the first non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy".

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Native Name: Karl Raimund Popper
Alternative Names: Karl Raimund Popper Sir Karl Raimund, Sir Popper Sir Karl Raimund Popper
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

اگر وسوسه شويم و زبان را سرسري بگيريم، خودِ ما علتِ مشكلاتي خواهيم بود كه پيش مي‌آيد. زيرا زبان خدايي است حسود، كسي را كه با آن سرسري رفتار كند بي‌كيفر نمي‌گذارد، بلكه به اعماقِ تاريكي‌ها و آشفتگي‌ها فرو مي‌برد.

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We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

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