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Karl Popper Quotations

My studies on Karl Popper are found in:

Orr, C. J. (1978). How shall we say:"Reality is socially constructed through communication?" Central States Speech Journal, 29, 263-274.

Orr, C. J. (1990). "Critical rationalism: Rhetoric and the voice of reason." In R. E. Cherwitz (Ed.), Rhetoric and Philosophy ( 105-147). Hilldale, NJ.: Erlbaum.

Ten Top Quotations from Karl Popper

"We approach everything in light of a preconceived theory."
"With each new problem we solve, we...discover new and unsolved problems."
"At any moment, we are prisoners caught in a framework of our own making...but...if we try, we can break out of our framework...Admittedly, we shall find ourseleves again in a framework; but it will be a better and roomier framework."
"All teaching at university level should be encouragement in critical thinking."
"Let our theories die in our stead."
How can we admit our knowledge is human...without at the same time implying that it is all individual whim and arbitrariness?"
"[The poorly educated person] has a technique he can apply without asking for the reason why."
"[One does not go to the university] to talk...impressively and incomprehensibly[or]...to state the utmost trivialities in high-sounding language."
"We should be anxious not to suppress a new idea even if it does not appear to us to be very good."
"We do not know how it is that we are alive on this ...planet, or why there should be something like life, to make our planet so beautiful. But, here we are, and we have every reason to wonder at it, and to feel grateful for it. It comes close to being a miracle."

Quotations from Popper's Students

"To search after truth is to to start to scale a mountain of infinite height. It is no more possible that some climber will reach the top than it is that some mathematician will count all the numbers."

W. W. Bartley

"If a rational individual is one who can tell the truth, a rational environment is one in which the truth can be told."

W. W. Bartley

Sir Karl Popper

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C. Jack Orr's Web Site

jorr@cjorr.com

Professor C. Jack Orr's Web Site

Karl Popper Quotations

"We approach everything in light of a preconceived theory."

"With each new problem we solve, we...discover new and unsolved problems."

"At any moment, we are prisoners caught in a framework of our own making...but...if we try, we can break out of our framework...Admittedly, we shall find ourseleves again in a framework; but it will be a better and roomier framework."

"All teaching at university level should be encouragement in critical thinking."

"Let our theories die in our stead."

How can we admit our knowledge is human...without at the same time implying that it is all individual whim and arbitrariness?"

"[The poorly educated person] has a technique he can apply without asking for the reason why."

"[One does not go to the university] to talk...impressively and incomprehensibly[or]...to state the utmost trivialities in high-sounding language."

"We should be anxious not to suppress a new idea even if it does not appear to us to be very good."

"We do not know how it is that we are alive on this ...planet, or why there should be something like life, to make our planet so beautiful. But, here we are, and we have every reason to wonder at it, and to feel grateful for it. It comes close to being a miracle."