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

Isaac Asimov

It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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Animal Human Humble Plant Thinking World
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
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
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
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
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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Confidence Myself Right Wrong
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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Beginning End Reach River Sea Story
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man One Liner
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
The 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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Culture Democracy Goodness Ignorance Intellectual Knowledge Life Meaning Wind Yourself
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural
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
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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