Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
ISAAC ASIMOVWas there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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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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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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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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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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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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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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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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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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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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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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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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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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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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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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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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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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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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