Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
ISAAC ASIMOVHe 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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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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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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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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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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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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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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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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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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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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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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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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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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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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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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