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

Karl Popper

The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
Theories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the mesh ever finer and finer.
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Fine Perfection Theory World
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
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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Deep Difference Equality Ourselves Philosophy
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
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
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
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
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
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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Existence Man Philosophy Spiritual
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.
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Hate Love Myself Philosophy Teaching

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

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