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Karl Theodor Jaspers
(23 Feb 1883 - 26 Feb 1969)
German-Swiss philosopher and psychiatrist who promoted existentialism. He helped establish psychopathology with a rigorous, scientifically descriptive basis. During the Nazi period in Germany, he was barred from teaching (1938-45) and subsequently settled in Switzerland (1948).
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Science Quotes by Karl Theodor Jaspers (1 quote)
On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.
— Karl Theodor Jaspers
Kleine Schule des philosophischen Denkens (1965), trans. R. F. C. Hull and G. Wels, Philosophy is for Everyman: A Short Course in Philosophical Thinking (1969), 8.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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