My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
ISAAC ASIMOVThe 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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Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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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 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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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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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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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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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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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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