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Karl Popper, one of the very greatest thinkers of his, or any, age, was modest in expressing his philosophical findings. He prefaced his book The Open Society and its Enemies with a quotation from Edmund Burke which implied that all he, Popper, was trying to do was make a useful contribution to the greater work of more illustrious men:

“In my course I have known and, according to my  measure,
co-operated with great men, and I have never yet seen
any plan which has not been mended by the observations of
those who were much  inferior in understanding to the person
who took the lead in the business.”

Pay no attention to such modesty. His books The Logic of Scientific Discovery, The Poverty of Historicism, and The Open Society …..


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