The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
ISAAC ASIMOVUncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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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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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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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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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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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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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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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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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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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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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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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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