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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

Isaac Asimov

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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Beginning End Reach River Sea Story
It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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Animal Human Humble Plant Thinking World
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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Culture Democracy Goodness Ignorance Intellectual Knowledge Life Meaning Wind Yourself
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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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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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Decision Philosophy World
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
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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Bad Feeling Job Myself Quite Simplicity Worth
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Difficult Face Inspirational Life Motivational Myself Philosophy
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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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