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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.

Karl Popper

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
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
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
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law Philosophy Theory
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
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
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
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
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
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy 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 way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
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

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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