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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.

Isaac Asimov

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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Believe Easy Freedom Growth Liberty Photograph Rich Society
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Decision Philosophy World
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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Animal Human Humble Plant Thinking World
If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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Goodness Obey Reason Rule Thinking
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
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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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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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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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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