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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.

Karl Popper

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
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
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence – rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.
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Existence Man Philosophy Spiritual
If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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Break Greatness Men Ourselves Survive
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
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
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
In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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Important Philosophy Result
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.
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Impossible Philosophy Remember Speak Yourself
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy 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

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