Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.Karl Popper
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
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Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.
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Our civilization...has not yet fully recovered from the shock of its birth - the transition from the tribal or 'closed society', with its submission to magical forces, to the 'open society' which sets free the critical powers of man.
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