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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.

Karl Popper

History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
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 quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
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
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
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
The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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Abandonment God Himself Place Spiritual Theory
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
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

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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