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Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.

Karl Popper

We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians.
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Politics Right Science Weakness
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law Philosophy Theory
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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Himself Privilege Responsibility Special Study
And it implies that if we respect truth, we must search for it by persistently searching for our errors: by indefatigable rational criticism, and self-criticism.
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Philosophy Respect Search Truth
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
Theories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the mesh ever finer and finer.
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Fine Perfection Theory World
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
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Freedom Philosophy Reason Security
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science

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