Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
KARL POPPERIt is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
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History has no meaning.
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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The essential feature of dualist-interactionism is that the mind and brain are independent entities and that they interact by quantum physics.
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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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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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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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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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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all.
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