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"Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not."
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"Live a life that will make you look back in old age at your life and grin in satisfaction."

"When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take advantage of time."

"The Bible is the constant fountain for faith, conduct, and inspiration from which we drink daily."

"You are given the potential to excel, whether you do or not is entirely up to you."

"Every man has been called to produce a certain number of products within the time allocated to him to live on earth and failure to hit the target would mean a wasted life."

"Discouragement is your greatest enemy."

"Go all the way and let your soul be in what you are doing and there will be no limitations."

"The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to actualize them. The tragedy, however, is that you soon realize that the time you thought you had to fulfill the dreams had melted away before your very eyes."

"I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia."

"Find the willpower to begin work."
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"The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead."

"I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world."

"In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day."

"I'd ask [God] why he keeps trying to kill us all with disease, pestilence, and natural disasters. I'd ask why 99% of all species there ever were are now extinct -- if God works in mysterious ways, that way is mysteriously genocidal."

"The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all."

"I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard-explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species."

"My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer."

"To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself."

"I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up-many people feel small, because they're small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars."

"Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference."
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