At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
ISAAC ASIMOVI am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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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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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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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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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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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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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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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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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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 is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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