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.
ISAAC ASIMOVProperly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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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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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
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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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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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