Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
ISAAC ASIMOVLife is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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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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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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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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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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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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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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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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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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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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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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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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