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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

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
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
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
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
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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Crime Duty Moral Myself Philosophy Simplicity Sin
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
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
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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Avoid Demand Greatness Happiness Philosophy Prayer Suffering
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
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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Politics Right Science Weakness
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
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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Help Man Nature Ourselves
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory

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