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.
KARL POPPERWhat we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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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
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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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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Great men may make great mistakes.
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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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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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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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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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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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