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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

If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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Quiet Science Simplicity Yourself
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
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
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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Deep Difference Equality Ourselves Philosophy
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
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 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
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
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
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
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
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
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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