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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection

by Gardner Dozois

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"The first story ("Utriusque Cosmi" by Robert Charles Wilson) was excellent." — Jul 13, 2013 01:28PM

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“A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others”
― Karl Popper

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“We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.”
― Karl Popper

tags: political-freedom

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“While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.”
― Karl R. Popper

tags: humility, knowledge, wisdom

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“It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.”
― Karl R. Popper, The Lesson of this Century: With Two Talks on Freedom and the Democratic State

tags: politics, war

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“I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society. It took some time before I recognized this as no more than a beautiful dream; that freedom is more important than equality; that the attempt to realize equality endangers freedom; and that, if freedom is lost, there will not even be equality among the unfree.”
― Karl R. Popper, Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography

tags: equality, freedom, socialism

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