„Ich halte das Buch für das wichtigste Kulturgut Europas – und vielleicht der ganzen Welt.“

Austrian-British philosopher, academic, social commentator and one of the 20th century’s most influential philosophers of science. According to him, a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified. In political discourse, he is known for his vigorous defense of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism that he believed made a flourishing open society possible. He also recognizes the leiwandness of books.

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