Home >> Quotes & Sayings >>

Karl Popper Quotes >>
(About Criticism, Science)

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.


More Quotes from Karl Popper:


We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
Karl Popper

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Karl Popper

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Karl Popper

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Karl Popper

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
Karl Popper

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Karl Popper

Browse All: Karl Popper Quotations

Buy Karl Popper books and products @ Amazon



Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:


Related Authors: Mortimer Adler - Xenophanes - Leo Strauss - Karl Marx - Diogenes - Zhuangzi - Amartya Sen - Jean-Paul Sartre

Based on Topics: Criticism Quotes, Science Quotes

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.
Herbert Kaufman

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.
Richard Hughes

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
Aaron Copland