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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.

Isaac Asimov

The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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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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