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All things living are in search of a better world.

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All science and all philosophy are enlightened common sense.

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Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

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What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

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If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

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Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.

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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

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Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research program.

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I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

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The activity of understanding is, essentially, the same as that of all problem solving.

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Scientific theories, if they are not falsified, for ever remain hypotheses or conjectures.

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Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

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We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

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

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The history of power politics is nothing but the history of international crime and mass murder.

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It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.

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Knowledge consists in the search for truth — the search for objectively true, explanatory theories.

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It seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

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Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

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Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement....

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It is the aim of science to find satisfactory explanations, of whatever strikes us as being in need of explanation.

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If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

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Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.

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I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme...

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Every "good" scientific theory is one which forbids certain things to happen; the more a theory forbids, the better it is.

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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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