Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
ISAAC ASIMOVYou 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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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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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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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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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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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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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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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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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.’
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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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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