The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
ISAAC ASIMOVIt is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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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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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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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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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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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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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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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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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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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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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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