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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
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
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
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
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
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Freedom Philosophy Reason Security
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
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
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
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
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
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
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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Philosophy Reality Science Speak
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
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
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
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
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
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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Himself Privilege Responsibility Special Study
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
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
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
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

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