It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
ISAAC ASIMOVWhen stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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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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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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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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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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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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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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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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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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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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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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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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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There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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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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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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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Education isn’t something you 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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