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When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

Isaac Asimov

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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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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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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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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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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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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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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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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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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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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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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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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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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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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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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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

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