It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
ISAAC ASIMOVThere is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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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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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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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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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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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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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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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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