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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.

Isaac Asimov

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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Art Aspect Different Enemy Philosophy Science Whole
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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Difficult Face People See Time Yourself
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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Death Doctor Fast Live Myself Time
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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Convenience Democracy Dignity Human Life People Population Survive Value World Yourself
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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Blame Deep Emotion Human Kind Pain Reason
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Bad Goodness Law Taste Yourself
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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Belief Better Quite Thinking Universe Yourself
I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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Enough Existence God Honesty Opinion Understand
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Curiosity Drive Greatness Knowledge Mindset Understand Weapon
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
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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Different Earth Humanity Nation Security
Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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End Journey Life Worry Yourself
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself
Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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Easy Emotion Person Reason
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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Attraction Interest Live Society Time Woman

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