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Isaac Asimov

It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Book Reading Value Worth
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
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
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
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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Belief Better Quite Thinking Universe Yourself
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
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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Honesty Myself Wrong
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Deep Intelligence Nation Patriot Safety Stupidity
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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Fundamental Heaven Hypocrisy Religious Right
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

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