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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

The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary 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
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
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
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
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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Easy Hard Lost Philosophy Simplicity 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
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
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
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
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
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law 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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