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.
ISAAC ASIMOVAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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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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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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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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Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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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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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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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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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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