In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
ISAAC ASIMOVIt 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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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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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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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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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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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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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 we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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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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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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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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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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