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Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.
 
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
 
Half of the people in the world are below average.
 
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
 
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.
 
The revolutionary will be the one who can revolutionize himself.
 
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.
 
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
 
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
 
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
 
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
 
Who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past.
 
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
 
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!
 
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. 
 
Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the species homo sapiens - ourselves. There is nothing about our ancestral line or about our current biology that dictates how we will evolve in the future. Nothing in the natural order demands that our descendants resemble us in any particular way. Very likely, they will not resemble us. We will almost certainly transform ourselves, likely beyond recognition, in the generations to come.
 
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
 
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
 
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
 
I was once interviewed in Italy and the headline of the interview the next day was wonderful. I saved this for my collection it was... "YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots" and I thought that's exactly right. Yes we have a soul, but it's mechanical. But it's still a soul, it still does the work that the soul was supposed to do. It is the seat of reason. It is the seat of moral responsibility. It's why we are appropriate objects of punishment when we do evil things, why we deserve the praise when we do good things. It's just not a mysterious lump of wonder stuff... that will out live us.
 
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