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- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
- No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will…
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one…
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who…
- It is not only the living who are killed in war.
- 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…
- Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by…
- 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 am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No…
- Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?
- Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist in history who…
- To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need…
- The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths…
- If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
- It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort…
- I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.
- ...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,…
- There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping…
- Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.
- You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that…
- Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by…
- The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history…
- I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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