"There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs — they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves."

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“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”

“Facts are not science — as the dictionary is not literature.”

“A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community.”

“A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.”

“Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these — it's a state of mind.”

“A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.”

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Mathematics1960

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— Isaac Asimov

Science1920–1992

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"Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out."

— Pauline Kael

Literature1919–2001

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"If there is one thing more than another better established about the British Constitution it is this, that the Commons, and the Commons alone, have the complete control of supply and ways and means. A…"

— David Lloyd George

Politics1863–1945

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