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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Isaac Asimov

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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Discover Excitement Funny Science
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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Change Eyes Listening Past Tradition Truth
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
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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Humanity Nation Philosophy Right Understand
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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Belief Better Quite Thinking Universe Yourself
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.
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Believe Evidence Independent Myself Observation Reason Wild
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Discover Philosophy Universe Way
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
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Believe Easy Education Failure Function Kind Myself School
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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Culture Democracy Goodness Ignorance Intellectual Knowledge Life Meaning Wind Yourself
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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Attraction Interest Live Society Time Woman
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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Honesty Myself Wrong
Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Forget Learning Love Old People Thinking Young

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