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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

Isaac Asimov

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
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
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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Believe Boredom Fear Heaven Hell Life Myself Thinking
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
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.
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Believe Evidence Independent Myself Observation Reason Wild
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Different Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Uncertain Yourself
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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Death Doctor Fast Live Myself Time
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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Easy Emotion Person Reason
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 saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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