There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
ISAAC ASIMOVThe most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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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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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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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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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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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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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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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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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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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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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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