Karl Popper

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Born

28 July 1902

Died

17 September 1994

Works

90

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Active from

1902-07-28

Active to

1994-09-17

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Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH, FRS, FBA (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austro-British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century; he also wrote extensively on social and political philosophy. Popper is known for his attempt to repudiate the classical observationalist / inductivist account of scientific method by advancing empirical falsification <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Karl+Popper">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology

   · 2015 · cited 29,071x

2. Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma

   · 2005 · cited 18,708x

3. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,756x

4. An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design

   · 2012 · cited 11,728x

5. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

   · 2018 · cited 9,640x

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Quotes

• “You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence "democracy", and the other "tyranny".”
• “Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. (All that technology may say about ends is whether they are compatible with each other or realizable.)”
• “If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.”
• “Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”
• “For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance.”
• “Appealing to his Einstein's] way of expressing himself in theological terms, I said: If God had wanted to put everything into the universe from the beginning, He would have created a universe without change, without organisms and evolution, and without man and man's experience of change. But he seems to have thought that a live universe with events unexpected even by Himself would be more interesting than a dead one.”

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