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.
ISAAC ASIMOVMaybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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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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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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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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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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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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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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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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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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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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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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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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