Karl Popper Quotes About Growth

Quotes about: Growth

• The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.

  Karl Popper

  Growth, Depends, Disagreement

  Karl Popper, M.A. Notturno (2014). “The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality”, p.10, Routledge

• It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Ideas, Growth

• The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural selection of hypotheses: our knowledge consists, at every moment, of those hypotheses which have shown their (comparative) fitness by surviving so far in their struggle for existence, a competitive struggle which eliminates those hypotheses which are unfit.

  Karl Popper

  Struggle, Knowledge, Science

• Reason like science, grows by way of mutual criticism; the only possible way of planning its growth is to develop those institutions that safeguard. the freedom of thought

  Karl Popper

  Growth, Criticism, Way

  Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and its Enemies”, p.499, Routledge

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