The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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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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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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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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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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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 conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.
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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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All life is problem-solving.
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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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