Karl Popper Quotes About Certainty

Quotes about: Certainty

• Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.

  Karl Popper

  Mistake, Interesting, Objective Truth

  Karl Popper (2012). “In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years”, p.4, Routledge

• The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain.

  Karl Popper

  Quests, Impossible, Precision

• The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative for ever.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Objectivity, Idols

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.280, Routledge

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