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.
ISAAC ASIMOVTo make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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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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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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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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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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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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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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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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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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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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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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