The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
ISAAC ASIMOVThe 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.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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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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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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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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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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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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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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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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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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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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