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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’

Isaac Asimov

The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Book Reading Value Worth
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
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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Believe Boredom Fear Heaven Hell Life Myself Thinking
Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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Easy Emotion Person Reason
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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Different Earth Humanity Nation Security
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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Honesty Myself Wrong
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Death Desire Live Past Time
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
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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Blame Deep Emotion Human Kind Pain Reason
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’

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