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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

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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Art Aspect Different Enemy Philosophy Science Whole
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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Believe Death Defense Faith Fools Protection
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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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
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
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
Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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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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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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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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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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