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?
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 cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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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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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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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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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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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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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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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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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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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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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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