Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
ISAAC ASIMOVThe 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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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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So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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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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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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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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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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