Karl Popper Quotes about Art

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Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.

Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.

Karl Popper

Art, Improvement, Theory

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Karl Popper

Funny, Art, Crazy

1982 Quoted in the Observer,1Aug.

The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they happen to be true. Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification-the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.

Karl Popper

Art, Science, Simple

Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.44, Routledge