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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 Popper

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
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
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
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
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
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
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
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
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Greatness Home Man Philosophy Soul Spiritual Wisdom World
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law Philosophy Theory
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 Nature Promise

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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