Karl Popper Quotes

The solution of one problem always brings a few more problems to the surface to be solved, which were hidden underneath the theory of transmission.

In human affairs the solution to every problem contains within it the seeds of a new problem.

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

Every problem solved is a problem made.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Every solution breeds new problems.

You've outlined the problem very well. Solutions are much more difficult to come by.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.

Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

I'm not a firm believer of "mo' money mo' problems" - I think that's stupid. I think it's that problems are already there that can be exacerbated by more things you don't understand.

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.

If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.

We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.

If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger.

The human mind thinks but to complicate. As soon as one problem is solved, that solution introduces new complications, other problems that perhaps did not exist before. That was one of my great troubles when I was younger, I invented many things that were very fine, but always I was getting into complications. I have had to work very hard to overcome that.

Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.