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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.

Isaac Asimov

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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Argument Enlightenment Joke Kind Literature Philosophy Politics Question
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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Believe Boredom Fear Heaven Hell Life Myself Thinking
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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Convenience Democracy Dignity Human Life People Population Survive Value World Yourself
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
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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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
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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Belief Enough Goodness Life Man People Philosophy Thinking Yourself
If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Advice Negative Oneself Yourself
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself

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