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Isaac Asimov

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
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself
When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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Beginning End Reach River Sea Story
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
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
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
There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Death Desire Live Past Time
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
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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Difficult Face People See Time Yourself
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Aspect Knowledge Life Right Sadness Science Society Wisdom
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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Animal Human Humble Plant Thinking World
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself

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