Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
Denying realism amounts to megalomania.
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
The principle of the national state, that is to say, the political demand that the territory of every state should coincide with the territory inhabited by one nation, is by no means so self-evident a...
Despite my admiration for scientific knowledge, I am not an adherent of scientism. For scientism dogmatically asserts the authority of scientific knowledge; whereas I do not believe in any authority a...
Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.
The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know; our knowledge of our ignorance. For this inde...
We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.