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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.

Isaac Asimov

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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Acceptance Discrimination Equality Face Intelligence Intuition Investment Man Woman Yourself
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
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
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem
The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man One Liner
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
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
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
I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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Honesty Myself Wrong
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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Easy Emotion Person Reason
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
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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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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Different Earth Humanity Nation Security

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.

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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.

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