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.
ISAAC ASIMOVThere seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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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You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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There 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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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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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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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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