A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
KARL POPPERAll life is problem-solving.
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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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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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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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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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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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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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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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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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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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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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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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In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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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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Great men may make great mistakes.
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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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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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