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

Karl Popper

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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Crime Duty Moral Myself Philosophy Simplicity Sin
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 simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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Easy Hard Lost Philosophy Simplicity Truth
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
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
It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.
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Achieve Peace Simplicity Weapon World
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
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
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
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
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
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
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

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