The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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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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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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