The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
ISAAC ASIMOVThe greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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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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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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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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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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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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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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