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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

Isaac Asimov

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Different Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Uncertain Yourself
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
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Book Reading Value Worth
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Computer Fear Myself
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
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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Change Escape Existence Future Hope Injustice Potential Worst
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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Beginning End Reach River Sea Story
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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Believe Easy Education Failure Function Kind Myself School
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
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
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
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
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself

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