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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain.


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

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



The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.

The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.



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.

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.



The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.

The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.



If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.

If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.



The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.

The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.



Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.



A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.



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

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



The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.





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Without the desire to be patient patience doesn't happen, Just like without the desire to grow, LIFE doesn't happen!

Without the desire to be patient patience doesn't happen, Just like without the desire to grow, LIFE doesn't happen!



Your lack of questioning and curiosity has been the bane of my existence.

Your lack of questioning and curiosity has been the bane of my existence.



Is true, you do feel better about things the further you run from it

Is true, you do feel better about things the further you run from it



She was supposed to be my salvation, and though she wouldn’t be my ruin, the loss was going to thrust my life right back to what started my downward spiral in the first place.

She was supposed to be my salvation, and though she wouldn’t be my ruin, the loss was going to thrust my life right back to what started my downward spiral in the first place.



4 Hours, 48 Minutes and 19 Seconds here the point is that everything is possible.

4 Hours, 48 Minutes and 19 Seconds here the point is that everything is possible.



There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.



I love hipsters! Yes, I think they're hilarious. The really cute ones try to look ugly just to prove "I can't be ugly." Normcore was kind of funny too.

I love hipsters! Yes, I think they're hilarious. The really cute ones try to look ugly just to prove "I can't be ugly." Normcore was kind of funny too.



I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.



It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.



The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.

The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.




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