“It seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.”

— Karl Popper

Source: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963), p. 368

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“It seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.”

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