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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

Isaac Asimov

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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Believe Easy Freedom Growth Liberty Photograph Rich Society
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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End Journey Life Worry Yourself
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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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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Belief Better Quite Thinking Universe Yourself
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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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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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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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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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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 is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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