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“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”
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“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.”
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“Divide and Conquer.”
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“A famous explorer once said, that the extraordinary is in what we do, not who we are. I’d finally set out to make my mark; to find adventure. But instead adventure found me. In our darkest moments, when life flashes before us, we find something; Something that keeps us going. Something that pushes us.”
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“For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which we live, and the riddle of man's knowledge of that world. And I believe that only a revival of interest in these riddles can save the sciences and philosophy from an obscurantist faith in the expert's special skill and in his personal knowledge and authority.”
― The Logic of Scientific Discovery
― The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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