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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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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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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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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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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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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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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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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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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

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