Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
ISAAC ASIMOVPeople who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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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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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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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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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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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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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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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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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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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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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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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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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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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