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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Isaac Asimov

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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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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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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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 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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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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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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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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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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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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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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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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