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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

Karl Popper

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
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law Philosophy Theory
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
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
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner 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
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
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
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
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
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
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Freedom Philosophy Reason Security
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
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
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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Himself Privilege Responsibility Special Study
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
The method of learning by trial and error – of learning from our mistakes – seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practiced by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees, or by men of science.
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Animal Learning Man Mistakes Ourselves Science
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
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

We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

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