While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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?
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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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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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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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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
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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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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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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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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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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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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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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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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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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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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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