Wrong

By Karl Popper

Our knowledge only increases when somebody is wrong.

— Karl Popper


Source

I’m unable to find a source for this quote, that isn’t a blog post of tweet from me!

The closest I can find is:

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

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I did find this semi-related quote, also attributed to Karl Popper:

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

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