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

Karl Popper

If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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Break Greatness Men Ourselves Survive
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
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
And it implies that if we respect truth, we must search for it by persistently searching for our errors: by indefatigable rational criticism, and self-criticism.
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Philosophy Respect Search Truth
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
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
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
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
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
Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all.
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Avoid Demand Greatness Happiness Philosophy Prayer Suffering
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy

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