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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

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
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
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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Quiet Science Simplicity Yourself
Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.
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Impossible Philosophy Remember Speak Yourself
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
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
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
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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Hate Love Myself Philosophy Teaching
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
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
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
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
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves

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