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Education isn’t something you can finish.

Isaac Asimov

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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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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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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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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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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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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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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