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“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
“Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots”
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“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 spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.”
― I. Asimov: A Memoir
― I. Asimov: A Memoir
“Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.”
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“I’ve had very little experience in my life. In fact, I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.”
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