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Karl Popper
Austrian-British philosopher (1902-1994), a leading philosopher of science. He proposed falsifiability as the criterion of scientific status; The Open Society (1945) defended liberal democracy. Soros named him mentor.
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You must learn all things: both the steadfast heart of well-rounded Truth and the opinions of mortals, in which there is no true trust.
-- Parmenides
For thinking and Being are the same.
-- Parmenides
Color exists by convention, sweet by convention, bitter by convention; in reality there are only atoms and void.
-- Democritus
I know that I know nothing.
-- Socrates
I know that I do not know.
-- Plato
Imagine prisoners chained underground since childhood, seeing only shadows on a wall and taking them for reality.
-- Plato