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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

Isaac Asimov

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
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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Death Doctor Fast Live Myself Time
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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Commitment Enough Eyes Human Love Myself Optimism Race Stupidity Suicide Wonderful
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Curiosity Drive Greatness Knowledge Mindset Understand Weapon
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Advice Negative Oneself Yourself
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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Goodness Obey Reason Rule Thinking
Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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Attraction Interest Live Society Time Woman
Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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End Journey Life Worry Yourself
I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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Enough Existence God Honesty Opinion Understand
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
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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Believe Boredom Fear Heaven Hell Life Myself Thinking
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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Fundamental Heaven Hypocrisy Religious Right
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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Believe Easy Freedom Growth Liberty Photograph Rich Society
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence

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