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It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.

Karl Popper

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.
KARL POPPER

Philosophy Respect Search Truth
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
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
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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Philosophy Reality Science Speak
The method of learning by trial and error – of learning from our mistakes – seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practiced by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees, or by men of science.
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Animal Learning Man Mistakes Ourselves Science
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
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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Independent Mindset Science
The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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Abandonment God Himself Place Spiritual Theory
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
It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.
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Achieve Peace Simplicity Weapon World
If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
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Deep Destroy Oppression Philosophy Prepare Tolerance
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.
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Hate Love Myself Philosophy Teaching
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves

It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.

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