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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.

Isaac Asimov

While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Book Reading Value Worth
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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Bad Feeling Job Myself Quite Simplicity Worth
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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Argument Enlightenment Joke Kind Literature Philosophy Politics Question
When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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Beginning End Reach River Sea Story
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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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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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
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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Confidence Myself Right Wrong
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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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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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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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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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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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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