I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
ISAAC ASIMOVSelf-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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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 first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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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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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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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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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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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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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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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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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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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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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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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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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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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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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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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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