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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.

Karl Popper

The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
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
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
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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Call Decision Game Himself Science
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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Book Deep Learning Moment
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
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
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
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
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
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

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