Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
KARL POPPERScience is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence – rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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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 wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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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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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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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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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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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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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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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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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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