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.
ISAAC ASIMOVLife is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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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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If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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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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The intelligent man is never bored.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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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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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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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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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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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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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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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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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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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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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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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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