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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Isaac Asimov

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
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
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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Humanity Nation Philosophy Right Understand
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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Adversity Fools Hard Time Prediction Reality Service
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
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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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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Belief Enough Goodness Life Man People Philosophy Thinking Yourself
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
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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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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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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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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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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