The intelligent man is never bored.
ISAAC ASIMOVThere is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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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.
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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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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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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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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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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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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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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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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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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