There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
ISAAC ASIMOVIt 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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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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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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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 are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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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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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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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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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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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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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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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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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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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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I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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