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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

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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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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Believe Easy Freedom Growth Liberty Photograph Rich Society
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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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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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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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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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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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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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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