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- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction,…
- 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…
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
- Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
- Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going…
- It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
- 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…
- I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll…
- Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
- During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800,…
- I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
- The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them…
- 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…
- To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to…
- I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of…
- Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of…
- There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no…
- It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort…
- The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world.…
- One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not…
- Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions depends on a…
- I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.
- It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one…
- The Iranians are Moslems and the Iraqi are Moslems. Both are certain that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle