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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.

Isaac Asimov

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Deep Intelligence Nation Patriot Safety Stupidity
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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Believe Evidence Independent Myself Observation Reason Wild
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy Understand Yourself
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Different Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Uncertain Yourself
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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Choice Future Goodness Prediction Reaction Yourself
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Discover Philosophy Universe Way
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural
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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Discover Excitement Funny Science
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
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Change Escape Existence Future Hope Injustice Potential Worst
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself

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