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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

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
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
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
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
The essential feature of dualist-interactionism is that the mind and brain are independent entities and that they interact by quantum physics.
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Independent Mindset Science
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
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
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
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
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
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
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

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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