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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.

Karl Popper

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
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 way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
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
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
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
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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Argument Man Philosophy Science
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
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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Deep Difference Equality Ourselves Philosophy
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
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
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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Crime Duty Moral Myself Philosophy Simplicity Sin
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
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
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
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Book Deep Learning Moment
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
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 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

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