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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

Karl Popper

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
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
It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.
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Achieve Peace Simplicity Weapon World
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
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law Philosophy Theory
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
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
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
Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.
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Impossible Philosophy Remember Speak Yourself
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
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
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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Argument Man Philosophy Science
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory

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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