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The game of science is, in principle, without end.

Karl Popper

Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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Himself Privilege Responsibility Special Study
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
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
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
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
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 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 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
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
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
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
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Believe Choice Freedom Lost Philosophy Prepare Thinking Victory Wrong
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Greatness Home Man Philosophy Soul Spiritual Wisdom World
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

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