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“Every man's position on Earth is restricted to the distance he can walk.' -- "The Last Trump” quote by Isaac Asimov — Download Open image

““Every man's position on Earth is restricted to the distance he can walk.' -- "The Last Trump””

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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that…

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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 ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know-even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction-than to gain eternal life at…

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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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“Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!”

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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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“It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can…

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When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it,…

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“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is…

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“temperatura constante de mais ou menos 21 graus”

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“Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being…

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“if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted”

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The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been…

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