It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
ISAAC ASIMOVIt is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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