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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

Isaac Asimov

Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Forget Learning Love Old People Thinking Young
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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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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Culture Democracy Goodness Ignorance Intellectual Knowledge Life Meaning Wind Yourself
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Book Reading Value Worth
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
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
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Advice Negative Oneself Yourself
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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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
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
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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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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