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There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called liquids that turned into gases easily, "spirits." Me...more

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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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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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To insult someone we call him 'bestial'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselve...more

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You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

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Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

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We are gaining the knowledge science is giving us that. Now we need wisdom as well.

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And just how did you arrive at that remarkable conclusion, Mr. Mayor?""In a rather simple way. It merely required the use of that much-neglected commo...more

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I shall not be alive a half decade hence,” said Seldon, “and yet it is of overpowering concern to me. Call it idealism. Call it an identification of m...more

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I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.

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Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and tha...more

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Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusin...more