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Karl Popper

The essential feature of dualist-interactionism is that the mind and brain are independent entities and that they interact by quantum physics.
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Independent Mindset 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
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
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
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
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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Deep Destroy Oppression Philosophy Prepare Tolerance
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
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
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
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
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
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
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
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True

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