Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
ISAAC ASIMOVThere are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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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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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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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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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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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 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 greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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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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