The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
ISAAC ASIMOVNever let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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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 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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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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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
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The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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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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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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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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Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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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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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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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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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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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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The intelligent man is never bored.
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