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It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

Karl Popper

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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Philosophy Reality Science Speak
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
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 may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
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
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
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
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
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
And it implies that if we respect truth, we must search for it by persistently searching for our errors: by indefatigable rational criticism, and self-criticism.
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Philosophy Respect Search Truth
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
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

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