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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

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I know nothing about sex because I was always married.

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

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