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    Isaac Asimov
    “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: education, learning, lifelong-learning, self-education
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    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: fear, life, science, understanding
    2859 likes

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    Charles Darwin
    “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
    tags: dare, inspirational, life, science, time, value, waste
    2883 likes

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    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: doubt, intelligent, problems, smart, stupid, world
    2380 likes

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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.”
    ― The Dalai Lama
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    Bertrand Russell
    “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: paraphrased, philosophy
    1332 likes

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    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, philosophy
    4621 likes

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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
    6841 likes

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    Christopher Hitchens
    “The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
    tags: critical-thinking, independent-thought, opinions, skepticism, thinking
    870 likes

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    Siddhartha Mukherjee
    “Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing. —Voltaire”
    ― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    4497 likes

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    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic
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    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism
    3145 likes

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    George Carlin
    “Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: absurdity, belief, credulity, doubt, evidence, gullibility, humor, indoctrination, invisible, reason, skepticism
    1203 likes

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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything...”
    ― Robert G. Ingersoll
    tags: conceit, honesty, knowledge, learn, understanding, willing
    93 likes

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    Carl Sagan
    “It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    952 likes

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    Epicurus
    “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: desire, gratitude, hope
    2869 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
    19818 likes

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    Giordano Bruno
    “Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
    ― Giordano Bruno
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
    ― Jean Jacques Rousseau
    tags: wisdom
    1132 likes

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    Isaac Newton
    “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
    ― Isaac Newton
    666 likes

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    Ludwig Feuerbach
    “As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.”
    ― Ludwig Feuerbach
    tags: 1833, abelard-and-heloise, book, books, reading
    137 likes

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    Ricky Gervais
    “Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others.
    The same applies when you are stupid.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
    tags: stupidity
    123 likes

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    Carl Sagan
    “We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: atheism, science
    858 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, inspirational
    6342 likes

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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
    tags: magic, science, technology, wonder
    1750 likes

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    Baruch Spinoza
    “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza
    tags: education, free-thought, philosophy
    871 likes

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    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    ― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
    tags: education, experience, wisdom
    3191 likes

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    René Descartes
    “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: literature, reading, words
    1015 likes

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    Thomas Paine
    “One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
    tags: christianity, religion, separation-of-church-and-state, skepticism
    296 likes



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