Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
ISAAC ASIMOVHuman beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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