Karl Popper Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: July 28, 1902 - September 17, 1994
Birthday: July 28
Death: September 17
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.
source: 1960 Conjectures and Refutations (published1963), ch.10.
topic: Dream, Mistake, Learning, Learning From Our Mistakes, Obstinacy, History Of Science
