The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
ISAAC ASIMOVMan’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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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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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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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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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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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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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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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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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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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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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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