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The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.

Karl Popper

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
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
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
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.
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Ability Democracy Freedom
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
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
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
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
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
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
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law Philosophy Theory
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
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
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
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
The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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Abandonment God Himself Place Spiritual Theory
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
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
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
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself

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