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.
KARL POPPERThe game of science is, in principle, without end.
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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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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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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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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.
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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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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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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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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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All life is problem-solving.
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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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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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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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