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I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in any field of science... This loosening of thinking seems to me to be the greatest blessing which modern science has given to us. For the belief in a single truth and in being the possessor thereof is the root cause of all evil in the world.

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I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error,…

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There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced b…

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Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would make God sma…

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Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can b…

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The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.

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The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

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I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

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Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

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We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

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