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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Different Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Uncertain Yourself
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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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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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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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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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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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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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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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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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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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 cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

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