Karl Popper - History Quotes

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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Karl Popper

The history of power politics is nothing but the history of international crime and mass murder.

Karl Popper

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.

Karl Popper

Only a man who understands science (that is scientific problems) can understand its history... Only a man who has some real understanding of its history (the history of its problem situations) can understand science.

Karl Popper