I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
ISAAC ASIMOVIt’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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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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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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The intelligent man is never bored.
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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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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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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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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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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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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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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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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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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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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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