Karl Popper Quotes about Atheism

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The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim, that is, to bring about a state of affairs which makes reforms without violence

The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim, that is, to bring about a state of affairs which makes reforms without violence possible.

Karl Popper

Should Have, Atheism, Use

Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and Its Enemies”, p.360, Routledge

A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but the falsifiability of a system is to be taken as a criterion of demarcation... It must be possible for an empirical or scientific system to be refuted by experience.

Karl Popper

Taken, Atheism, Consideration

'The Logic of Scientific Discovery' (1934) ch. 1, sect. 6