Quotes from book
The Open Universe

The Open Universe
Karl Popper

First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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“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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