Karl Popper Quotes About Giving Up

Quotes about: Giving Up

• If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

  Karl Popper

  Giving Up, Fighting, May

  Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and Its Enemies”, p.38, Routledge

• Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that they may always be superseded, and that they may possibly be deduced from probability estimates. Yet denying causality would be the same as attempting to persuade the theorist to give up his search; and that such an attempt cannot be backed by anything like a proof.

  Karl Popper

  Giving Up, Mean, Science

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.244, Routledge

• Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate, before you have critically examined your criticism.

  Karl Popper

  Giving Up, Science, Thinking

  Sir Karl Raimund Popper, Karl Raimund Popper (1974). “The Philosophy of Karl Popper”

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