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The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the meek.

— Karl Popper The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)

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There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

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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 may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.

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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

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All things living are in search of a better world.

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