There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
ISAAC ASIMOVThere is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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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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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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You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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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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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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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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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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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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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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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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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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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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It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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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 Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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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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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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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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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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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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