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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.

Karl Popper

Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
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
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
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
It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
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Believe Choice Freedom Lost Philosophy Prepare Thinking Victory 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
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law Philosophy Theory
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
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
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 don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth

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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