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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

Karl Popper

We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it.
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Help Man Nature Ourselves
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence – rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.
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Existence Man Philosophy Spiritual
He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test and that they can be regarded as finally verified retires from the game.
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Call Decision Game Himself Science
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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Deep Difference Equality Ourselves Philosophy
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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Adventure Greatness Man Science Spiritual
We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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Fate Ourselves Philosophy Success
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Greatness Home Man Philosophy Soul Spiritual Wisdom World
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
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Book Deep Learning Moment
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

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