“Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.”

— Karl Popper , book The Open Universe

The Open Universe : An Argument for Indeterminism (1992), p. 44

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Austrian-British philosopher of science 1902–1994

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