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

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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
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 may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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Fate Ourselves Philosophy Success
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
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
I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.
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Hate Love Myself Philosophy Teaching
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
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
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
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science

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