While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
KARL POPPERThe quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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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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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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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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History has no meaning.
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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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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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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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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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Great men may make great mistakes.
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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.
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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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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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