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

Karl Popper

“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
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
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
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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Ability Democracy Freedom
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
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
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
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
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
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
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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Argument Man Philosophy Science
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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