“Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. (All that technology may say about ends is whether they are compatible with each other or realizable.)”

—  Karl Popper, book The Poverty of Historicism

The Poverty of Historicism (1957) Ch. 22 The Unholy Alliance with Utopianism

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