Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
ISAAC ASIMOVMaybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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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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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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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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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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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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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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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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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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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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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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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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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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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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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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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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