Karl Popper Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities-perhaps the only one-in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there. In most other fields of human endeavour there is change, but rarely progress ... And in most fields we do not even know how to evaluate change.

  Karl Popper

  Dream, Mistake, Learning

  1960 Conjectures and Refutations (published1963), ch.10.

• There is no history, only histories.

  Karl Popper

  History

• There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

  Karl Popper

  Numbers, History, Kind

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Open Society and Its Enemies: Hegel and Marx”, p.299, Routledge

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