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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.

Isaac Asimov

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
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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Believe Evidence Independent Myself Observation Reason Wild
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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Commitment Enough Eyes Human Love Myself Optimism Race Stupidity Suicide Wonderful
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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Confidence Myself Right Wrong
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
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
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
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
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Discover Philosophy Universe Way
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

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