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No Matter How Many Instances Of White Swans We May Have Observed, This Does Not Justify The Conclusion That All Swans Are White.

We Hate The Very Idea That Our Own Ideas May Be Mistaken, So We Cling Dogmatically To Our Conjectures.

The True Enlightenment Thinker, The True Rationalist, Never Wants To Talk Anyone Into Anything. No, He Does Not Even Want To Convince; All The Time He Is Aware That He May Be Wrong. Above All, He Values The Intellectual Independence Of Others Too Highly To Want To Convince Them In Important Matters. He Would Much Rather Invite Contradiction, Preferably In The Form Of Rational And Disciplined Criticism. He Seeks Not To Convince But To Arouse - To Challenge Others To Form Free Opinions.

[great Scientists] Are Men Of Bold Ideas, But Highly Critical Of Their Own Ideas: They Try To Find Whether Their Ideas Are Right By Trying First To Find Whether They Are Not Perhaps Wrong. They Work With Bold Conjectures And Severe Attempts At Refuting Their Own Conjectures.

There Is No History Of Mankind, There Are Only Many Histories Of All Kinds Of Aspects Of Human Life. And One Of These Is The History Of Political Power. This Is Elevated Into The History Of The World.