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Quotes from Realism and the Aim of Science — Karl Popper

1902–1994 Austria

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There is no method of discovering a scientific theory.

Realism and the Aim of Science (1983)

What can be said can and should always be said more and more simply and clearly.

Realism and the Aim of Science (1983)

Never aim at more precision than... required by the problem...

Realism and the Aim of Science (1983)

Scientific Method... [is] even less existent than some other non-existent subjects.

Realism and the Aim of Science (1983)

I... believe in the rationalist tradition of a commonwealth of learning, and in the urgent need to preserve this tradition.

Realism and the Aim of Science (1983)

I have no faith in precision: ...simplicity and clarity are values in themselves, but not... [of] precision or exactness...

Realism and the Aim of Science (1983)

I disbelieve in specialization and... experts. ...[P]aying too much respect to the specialist ...[is] destroying the commonwealth of learning, the rationalist tradition, and science ...

Realism and the Aim of Science (1983)

[E]ven serious students are misled by the myth of the subject.

Realism and the Aim of Science (1983)

The doctrine that there is as much science in a subject as... mathematics in it, or as much... measurement or 'precision' in it, rests upon... misunderstanding.

Realism and the Aim of Science (1983)

As a rule, begin my lectures on Scientific Method by telling my students that scientific method does not exist. ...having been ...the one and only professor of this non-existent subject within the British Commonwealth.

Realism and the Aim of Science (1983)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karl Popper (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.