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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Isaac Asimov

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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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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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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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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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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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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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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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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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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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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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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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