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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

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
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
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
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
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
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Book Reading Value Worth
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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Different Earth Humanity Nation Security
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 figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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Enough Existence God Honesty Opinion Understand
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

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