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If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.

Karl Popper

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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Avoid Demand Greatness Happiness Philosophy Prayer Suffering
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
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
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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Ability Democracy Freedom
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
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
The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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Easy Hard Lost Philosophy Simplicity Truth
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
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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Argument Man Philosophy Science
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
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

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