The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
ISAAC ASIMOVIntelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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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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I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
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