You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
ISAAC ASIMOVToday’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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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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If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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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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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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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?
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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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