Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
ISAAC ASIMOVI 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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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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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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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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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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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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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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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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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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