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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

Karl Popper

“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
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
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
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
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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Easy Hard Lost Philosophy Simplicity Truth
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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Adventure Greatness Man Science Spiritual
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
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
In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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Important Philosophy Result

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