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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

Karl Popper

In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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Important Philosophy Result
We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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Fate Ourselves Philosophy Success
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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Himself Privilege Responsibility Special Study
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
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
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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Book Deep Learning Moment
Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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Adventure Greatness Man Science Spiritual
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Greatness Home Man Philosophy Soul Spiritual Wisdom World
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
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Freedom Philosophy Reason Security
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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Deep Destroy Oppression Philosophy Prepare Tolerance
He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test and that they can be regarded as finally verified retires from the game.
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Call Decision Game Himself Science
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

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