If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
ISAAC ASIMOVUncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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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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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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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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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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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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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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If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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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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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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