At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
ISAAC ASIMOVNothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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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 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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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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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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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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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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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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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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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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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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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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