Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
ISAAC ASIMOVAnd 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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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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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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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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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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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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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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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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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