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The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.

Karl Popper

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
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
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
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Freedom Philosophy Reason Security
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
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test and that they can be regarded as finally verified retires from the game.
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Call Decision Game Himself Science
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
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
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
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.
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Crime Duty Moral Myself Philosophy Simplicity Sin
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise

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