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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.

Karl Popper

History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
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
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
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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Ability Democracy Freedom
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
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
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
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
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
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
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
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong

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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