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.
KARL POPPERScience may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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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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The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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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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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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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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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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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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History has no meaning.
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