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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.

Isaac Asimov

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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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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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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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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Believe Death Defense Faith Fools Protection
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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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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Discover Excitement Funny Science
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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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’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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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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Difficult Face People See Time Yourself
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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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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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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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Bad Goodness Law Taste Yourself
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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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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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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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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The intelligent man is never bored.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.

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