While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
KARL POPPERScience is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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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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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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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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Great men may make great mistakes.
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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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The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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All life is problem-solving.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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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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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
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If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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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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