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Comment author: gwern 04 February 2011 12:40:32AM *  2 points [-]

Here's another Popper quote on Heidegger. No points for guessing how Popper took this (as is clear from the surrounding context):

"'I did not understand a word; but I know: this is philosophy' was the deep conviction of a highly gifted young physicist after he had heard Martin Heidegger speak."

--"The Unknown Xenophanes", The World of Parmenides, Karl Popper