If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
KARL POPPERIn 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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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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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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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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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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All life is problem-solving.
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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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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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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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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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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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If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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